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Originally Posted by ocicat
lint has been around from the beginnings of C & Unix.
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Right. My 1978-copyrighted (!) version of K&R describes
lint as "This program is called
lint, apparently because it picks bits of fluff from one's programs... It detects type mismatches, inconsistent argument usage, unused or apparently uninitialized variables, potential portability difficulties, and the like."