How To Steal Code, or Inventing The Wheel Only Once
- Henry Spencer
- Zoology Computer Systems
25 Harbord St.
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1 Canada
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Abstract
Much is said about ``standing on other people's shoulders, not their toes'',
but in fact the wheel is re-invented every day in the
Unix/C
community.
Worse, often it is re-invented badly, with bumps, corners, and cracks.
There are ways of avoiding this:
some of them bad, some of them good,
most of them under-appreciated and under-used.
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How To Steal Code
Translated from troff by Paul Selkirk on 06 April 1995.
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