If the dot cons showed us anything, it was that stocks can go up even though there is no rational reason.
My worst nightmare would be that some afterhours
announcement would be made that 'IBM might settle'
or something equally outrageous. The stock could
open at $200 the next day... bingo margin call!
which is why I can't bring myself to short SCO...
much as I'd like to.
IMHO, it wouldn't be such a losing battle if the C standard library was cleaned up to remove some of the more prone functions.
For instance, gets() is a classic example. There was no attempt to allow the caller to specify the maximum input length...
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There is a *slight* possibility that they *could* come up with millions of line of code... for instance, how many #endif lines are there in linux? ;-)
If the dot cons showed us anything, it was that stocks can go up even though there is no rational reason. My worst nightmare would be that some afterhours announcement would be made that 'IBM might settle' or something equally outrageous. The stock could open at $200 the next day... bingo margin call! which is why I can't bring myself to short SCO... much as I'd like to.
IMHO, it wouldn't be such a losing battle if the C standard library was cleaned up to remove some of the more prone functions. For instance, gets() is a classic example. There was no attempt to allow the caller to specify the maximum input length...