nemesis wrote:
> Joel is an amazing guy.  BTW, linked from this very article and still related to
> strings is one of the best articles I've seen in IT blogs, a classic by now:
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html
> 
> It also contains the Shlemiel the painter anecdote... :)

Thanks for the link, I'm quite enjoying it :)

Especially this quote: "This is what they're talking about when they say 
that a particular program has a buffer overflow susceptibility. It was 
the number one cause of hacks and worms in the olden days before 
Microsoft Outlook made hacking easy enough for teenagers to do."

HA!

-- 
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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