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Wilfred Hughes
Apr 17, 2017 at 21:17
The origins of XXX as FIXME
https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-04-17-xxx-fixme/
(lisp machines, early Unix, and proper code archaeology!)
The origins of XXX as FIXME
In which I go digging into source archives from 40-50 years ago, to figure out why we use XXX to mark dodgy code.