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Ken Sletten B894 C312 x62525 <[log in to unmask]>
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Ken Sletten B894 C312 x62525 <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 4 Feb 1997 19:17:00 P
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Steve said:

>As an aside, what kind of person uses a function name like
> tl_process_set_breakpoint_request$209$tl_attempt
>_to_mark_breakpoint_in_list_file

Obvious answer:  The same kind of person who gave us:
MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET

....  Sorry.....  I couldn't restrain myself.

>or

> tl_execute_trandebug_command_shell$155$check_to
>_see_if_we_have_hit_a_data_breakpoint!

Now I'm really shocked and appalled.... I know the HP
engineers who worked on the Transact NM debugger...
I guess even great products have a few skeletons in
the source code closet (as I think of some of the
things I have done with various excuses in code that
I have written)....

Ken Sletten

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