29 Jan
2021
29 Jan
'21
3:08 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Will Cooke via cctalk once stated:
WHY? Why would you get fired for fixing warnings? Would it make some
manager upstream look bad or something?
-spc
On 01/29/2021 4:42 PM David Barto via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Whenever I start a new job the first thing I do
today is enable -Werror;
all warnings are errors. And I?ll fix every one. Even when everyone
claims that ?These are not a problem?. Before that existed, I?d do the
same with lint, and FlexeLint when I could get it.
That's exactly what I did. I was promptly told I was likely to get fired
for it.