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Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Bernd "Bernie" Meyer
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 12:16
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ibl-juwa@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann) writes:

>There are some simple rules you should rely on when programming. Then you 
>will get programs that will most likely not crash. Verifying memory 
>allocations is one of these rules.

Not having any function calls that pass parameters is another, right.
Oh, and stay away from those nasty local variables. And of course there
is a number of functions in the standard C library you shouldn't call,
as they try to allocate memory. 

All in all, I prefer a robust VM system to take care of low memory situations.
Honestly.

Bernie

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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 12:16:01 GMT