On 01/03/2013 03:56 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
The first lint program I recall hearing of was available in the early
1980's, and was for the C language. At the time, the C language was
extremely flexible (in other words, lots of ways to shoot yourself in
the foot) and the compiler was mostly of the philosophy - if there's a
way to make sense of the statement, generate some code, somehow.
Anyway, lint made sense to me as the crud that gets mixed in with the
real fabric. And a linter is a machine that identifies and removes that
crud. Well, the lint program didn't remove anything, but it identified
a lot of it. I didn't hear the term linter till decades later.
Aah, now I understand this "lintering" and where it came from - thanks a
lot! :-)
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