HARRIS FLAME Re: SHORT vs. INT

[rdp at teddy.UUCP]

In article <2778 at sun.uucp> guy at sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>If people were as careless at using, say, saws as they were at using the C
>programming language, the rate at which people lost fingers in their
>workshops would be a national disgrace.

Actually, many people do use saws with the same care that many programmers 
use C, and the resulting loss-of-digit statistics are, indeed, disgraceful. 
The exact figures are, however, something I can't immediately put my finger on.