dev resurgence (was Re: [TriLUG] simple regular expression to strip HTML?)

[Ken Mink]

<SNIP>
> // -*- c-mode -*-
> 
> at the beginning or end of every file.
> 
<VENT>
If you're going to that, please for the love of God, make it:
/* -*- c-mode -*-  */

I'm working on a project right now porting an application from one
platform to another. There are some modules written in C and some
written in C++. However, the target platform's compiler is very strict
and doesn't handle the '//' comment style in 'C' files.

And since I'm venting, if you're writing code and comparing a variable
to a character, use 'a' not 0x61. You never know if you'll have to
compile using a different character set. Yes, I'm porting from an ASCII
machine to an EBCDIC machine. Chasing down those is something to drive
someone to drink. Okay, drink more.
</VENT>

I feel better. Back to our regularly schedule flame war.

Ken

> Cheers,
> Tanner
> -- 
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