To: nico@step.polymtl.ca
CC: preacher@step.polymtl.ca,comic@step.polymtl.ca
In-reply-to: <Pine.3.89.9504110009.A15505-0100000@step.polymtl.ca> (message from Nicolas Pitre on Tue, 11 Apr 1995 00:58:04 -0400 (EDT))
Subject: Re: Borland C
FCC: ~/mail/send
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>>>>> "NP" == Nicolas Pitre <nico@step.polymtl.ca> writes:

    NP> degats.  Dis-toi que, meme avec gcc + emacs, les sauvegarde
    NP> sont recommandees car tu n'est pas plus a l'abri des plus
    NP> beaux jams comme une panne de courant  (il me semblait que
    NP> tout aspirant ingenieur devait savoir ca!!  :_) ).

Surtout que sur Unix c'est facile de tout envoyer en l'air
rappidement. Il faudrait inventer un systeme qui mesure la fatique du
programmeur et qui ajoute de plus en plus de protections au fur et a
mesure que le programmeur se fatigue. Genre si tu fais "rm bwine.c" a
4:00h du matin:

> ls
alt.fan.goldorak:Frequently_Asked_Questions_With_Answers
bwine.c
core 
sophia003.gif
vuzul.c
> rm bwine.c
Remove `bwine.c'? y
Are you really sure? y
Have you thought about it (yes/no)? y
Please answer `yes' or `no'!
Have you thought about it (yes/no)? yes
Do you have a backup somewhere? n
Do you want me to create a backup? n
Are you sure you won't regret this? y
You know, most of the time, when somebody erases a file by mistake, he 
realizes his mistake usually two minutes after having erased the file. Do you
want to wait for two minutes? n
You are really absolutely positively sure about what you are going to do?
fuck
I'd like to but I'm not equiped for this. Now, about this "rm" thing, don't
you think it would be better to sleep over it?
^C
> unlink bwine.c
> vi vuzul.c
[Apres deux minutes de zigonnage avec vi pour essayer d'editer sont fichier...]
> gcc -o vuzul vuzul.c
> gcc -o bwine bwine.c
gcc: bwine.c: No such file or directory
gcc: No input files   
> ls
alt.fan.goldorak:Frequently_Asked_Questions_With_Answers
core 
sophia003.gif
vuzul
vuzul.c
> @$#^%$*&%^*&#$%@$#^%$&^%&$%^$#^$#%&^%$& fuck shit argh
I tried to warn you, moron.
[Ctrl-Alt-Del]
...
LILO: dos
...
Loading MS-DOS 6.2
...
C:\> unlink *
Bad command or file name.
C:\> rm -rf *
Bad command or file name.
C:\> win
[Apres 4 heures de travail avec Visual C sans avoir sauve...]
[tada.wav se fait entendre: tres aproprie]
---------------------------------------------------------
|  General Protection Fault in VC.EXE at 0x434f:0x433A  |
|  Apparently Windows tried to do more than one thing   |
|                   at the same time.                   |
|                                                       |
|              --------------------------               |
|              |          OK            |               |
|              --------------------------               |
|_______________________________________________________|
[2 secondes s'ecoulent... l'ecran devient noir... Beep...]
AMI BIOS (C) 1995
...

	Bonne nuit,
	Hallu

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