YARB (yet another rexec bug!)

[Jim Shankland]

About Berklix's rexec, rcmd, etc. code:
> > [FLAME ON (for those of you in net.bugs)]
> > Let me ask, one again, WHO WRITES THIS CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> > 
> > Brian Atkins   ...{attunix, hao, allegra, ucbvax}!nbires!atkins
> > NBI Inc., P.O. Box 9001, Boulder CO 80301	(303) 444-5710
> 
> The punishment that is given is that the program mysteriously fails
> when input strings are exactly n characters long. The punishment
> is placed on the person foolish enough to continue to use code that
> he has many times in the past labeled as 'CRAP'. 
> 
> I just wish that the party forcing you at gun-point to use this code
> would also force you to keep your fingers off the flame key.

Hey, come on, he's got a valid point.  The code is poorly written,
poorly commented -- all in all, it has the look of a first prototype
out of someone whose philosophy of software design is, "Bang away at
the keyboard until it (barely) works."  Take a good, long look at this
code and ask yourself how you would feel if you hired someone who
considered this to be release-quality code.

You're not really saying that the only choices are not to use the code,
or to suffer mediocrity in silence -- or are you?

Jim Shankland
..!ihnp4!pegasus!rtech!jas
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