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Re: Searching for a quote

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Fri Mar 13 09:47:25 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:47:18 +1100
In-Reply-To: <5502E2A1.90308@satchell.net>
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On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 06:14 -0700, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> what I was taught is that one has to be
> able to handle *correctly* malformed input, and not yield astonishing
> results.

"No program should leave its sanity at the mercy of its input". PJ
Plauger, I think.

Regards, K.

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