Ten years on....

Knikola nikola at komponenta.com
Tue Aug 21 03:58:36 EDT 2007


Clarence wrote:
> I've been waiting for a month to post this (yesterday), and then I
> missed it. Oh, well, it's funny and deserves to be republished on its
> ten-year-and-one-day anniversary.
> 
> BTW, a member of the ANSI C committee once told me that the only thing
> rand is used for in C code is to decide whether to pick up the axe or
> throw the dwarf, and if that's true I guess "the typical libc rand" is
> adequate for all but the most fanatic of gamers .
> 
> -- Tim Peters, 21 June 1997.
> 
> "Belated-but-still-sincerely-admiring-of-Tim-Peters"-ly yrs,
> Clarence
> 
:)



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