> On 01/30/2021 11:42 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote:
> > Modern Visual Studio and GCC both flag the "=" in a condition, I believe. > > But if you're shipping code with 260+ warnings, who would see one more. > And the problem here is really quite plain and simple. > Why are you shipping code with any warnings? > The short answer, as I replied earlier, is that they deemed the code too fragile to touch. When I told them I removed the warnings they said to put them back or I would likely be fired. > > There's a pretty good chance the heat pump you're using right now has those > > warnings. Alas... > Just because some other programmer is an idiot doesn't mean I have > to be. They only wanted idiots. So I immediately started looking for another job. I might be an idiot, but I don't want to be associated with the rest of them :-) Will "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -- Albert Einstein
