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[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/29/21 6:08 PM, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:
> 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?

They would see you as wasting valuable time fixing non-problems.
I would not work in a place like that.  Worse sti8ll is when you
work in a place point out logic errors that result in bad answers
that, obviously, don't get flagged by the compiler and nobody wants
to hear it.

bill