SPUG: PERL technical interview

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes sthoenna at efn.org
Mon Jan 23 09:59:59 PST 2006


On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:32:58AM -0600, Jeff Almeida wrote:
> <minimalist-hat>
> 
> correctness.
> 
> at it's root (ok bad pun), all code is a collection of patches to / 
> bin/true.... that is:
> 
> int main() {
> 	return 1;
> }
> 
> which is in a sense, the algebraic kernel of the software vector- 
> space.  it's also conveniently correct and canonically bug-free.

I've worked on a platform where the above is buggy.  Canonically bug-free
would be more like:

#include <stdlib.h>
#ifndef EXIT_SUCCESS
#define EXIT_SUCCESS 1
#endif

int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[]) {
   return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}


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