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In article <1990Sep4.012054.2072@wolves.uucp> wolfe@wolves.uucp (G. Wolfe Woodbury) writes:
>In <15...@shlump.nac.dec.com> pi...@huron.enet.dec.com (Garison Ellsworth Piatt) writes:
>>[rude program fragment deleted]
>>... and so on.  He uses this perverse style everywhere he needs to loop
>>between two functions.  I tried to make this thing crash one day, but with
>>only four bytes stored on the stack per function call, it takes a long time
>>to fill up 640K.  I got bored before it had a chance to crash.   I tried
>>to get him to change this, but he said that as long as it runs alone, nothing
>>will happen.
>>
>>Oh, well.
>
>OH, WELL (??!?) He says?
>This "associate" of yours, is he typical of the people that you hang out
>with?  If so, it explains a lot.  I sure care a lot more about programs
>that I am working on than to let some other programmer f**k up like
>this.

A byte here... a byte there... no wonder programs use up so much memory...

         Still remembering when a 4k static RAM upgrade for my H-8 (just the
         chips) cost $150, 
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