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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Ada safety road Was: Which is right ...
Date: 1999/06/09
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In article <yeclndu44z8.fsf@king.cts.com>,
  Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> wrote:

> The folks over in comp.std.c have a good term term for this: "nasal
> demons".  This originated when someone observed that when the compiler
> encounters a construct with undefined behavior, it is legal for it to
> make demons fly out of your nose.  See also the entry for "nasal
> demons" in The Jargon File and/or _The New Hacker's Dictionary_.

That's interesting. I wonder if that came about indepedently from
c.l.a.'s "nasal monkeys", or if one influenced the other.

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T.E.D.


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