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>
>But a lot of "professional" (what does that mean? paid? certified?
>member of the ACM? competent? my friends?) people get to write in
>C. And I've seen them not even use ANSI function prototypes ..
>
>I would have thought a professional woodworker who chose to use a
>circular saw without the guard wouldn't be so much professional as
>foolish ..

The problem is made worse when one considers that much of the code in
programs we use everyday ( I think of sendmail , perl and apache ) was
written by enthusiastic amateurs.