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How many times have we all warned beginning programmers to cross their
t's and dot their i's:  "Store through an uninitialized pointer, and
the computer could do anything---it could even run amok and delete all
your files!"

Okay, folks:  Have you ever had a bug in an innocent little program
that really did delete all your files?  Reformat the hard disk?  Send
rude mail to your mother?  (Well, probably not that.)

Here's mine:

I worked for a while at a small CAD company.  One co-worker inherited
from a summer hire some code with a nasty habit:  It liked to reformat
the hard disk about half way through the computation.  Needless to say,
it was slow going tracking that one down!  I think he eventually just
rewrote the whole thing from scratch.

								-- Dave
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Dave Gillespie
  256-80 Caltech Pasadena CA USA 91125
  da...@csvax.cs.caltech.edu, ...!cit-vax!daveg