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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Counting lines of a file
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:03:37 -0700
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jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:
> Le 03/10/2018 à 20:23, Keith Thompson a écrit :
>> Other than David Brown (and I disagree with him), nobody has suggested
>> that using newlines in file names is a good idea.  In fact it's a
>> terrible idea.
>
> Yes, so my little programm doesn't support it.
>
> What I was trying to say with this discussion is that it is important to 
> not OVER-ENGINEER software, keeping it simple, and maintainable.
[...]

Is writing a C program to do something that the existing OS utilities
can already do not over-engineering?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"