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Re: PATCH: address "This question is off topic for this list"
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, tm_gccmail at mail dot kloo dot net, Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>, Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:25:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: PATCH: address "This question is off topic for this list"
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.56.0308060032000.66055@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:20:56PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> What do you think about the patch below to update our common web page
> footer?
Nice!
(Random pre-coffee thought: if we can train mail filters to recognize spam,
we should be able to train them to recognize questions about the use /of/
GCC, intercept the message, and send an automatic reply. Am I volunteering
to implement it? Heck no.)
--
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
- Brian W. Kernighan