Chambers wrote:
> When you're writing a single, simple tool, with well defined inputs and 
> outputs, it's much easier to make it work *no matter what*. 

I saw a study done a number of years ago where researchers took each 
UNIX tool and piped random data into its input. The only ones that 
didn't dump core were programs that didn't care (e.g., cat) or programs 
specifically designed to parse its input (e.g., gcc).  Something like 
70% of the tools they tested dumped core.

A couple years later, it was all cleaned up or at least vastly improved, 
apparently.

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