[Info-vax] Why so much Unix envy?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <y%oNv.72081$JH1.18826 at fx08.iad>,
	Shark8 <OneWingedShark at gmail.com> writes:
> On 02-Sep-14 07:27, bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>> You can do wonders with cleaning up C code now by looking at the warnings
>> and fixing what they warn you about.  Instead, most programmers just turn
>> off all the warnings to get a "clean" compile.
> 
> Which means that the warnings are, generally, useless.

Why would that mean the warnings are useless?  The warnings carry meaning.
It is the useless programmer who chooses to ignore them rather than fix
what they are warning about.  Or are you arguing that the option to turn
them off should be removed from the compiler?

bill

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