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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