APL\360

Sean Conner spc at conman.org
Fri Jan 29 17:08:28 CST 2021


It was thus said that the Great Will Cooke via cctalk once stated:
> 
> > 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.  

  WHY?  Why would you get fired for fixing warnings?  Would it make some
manager upstream look bad or something?  

  -spc


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