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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-08-22 09:46:16 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-08-22 09:46:16 +0000
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@@ -123,3 +123,8 @@ sort: Investigate better sorting algorithms; see Knuth vol. 3.
algorithm to try next should be merge insertion. See Knuth section
5.3.1, who credits Lester Ford, Jr. and Selmer Johnson, American
Mathematical Monthly 66 (1959), 387-389.
+
+Document the exit status of each and every program.
+ Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
+ The sentence or two describing the common case must appear just once,
+ and then it must be made to appear in the 70+ places where it's needed.