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Lowercase[edit]

lint is a Unix command, it should be lowercase, should it? If not, revert that edit. - PGSONIC 14:02, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

JSLint[edit]

Would a link to JSLint.com be more appropriate here or in its own article? --Jesdisciple (talk) 13:47, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is an article on the C program verifier "lint" and a link here would not be appropriate. Other language verifiers (like jslint.com) go in List of tools for static code analysis, I think. -- George Gesslein II (talk) 16:46, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Lint Message Numbers[edit]

Does anyone have a better source for the List of Lint Message Numbers than the following, which was a cleanup victim?

List of Lint Message Numbers (http://www.cleanscape.net/products/cpp/checks.html )

FlashSheridan (talk) 01:47, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps by establishing notability for the product which was being mentioned, and putting the information (if topical) there Tedickey (talk) 08:21, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No. I'm not maintaining that a variant of Lint is notable in its own right; I'm trying to get a link to the list of Lint error messages that won't be removed.

FlashSheridan (talk) 20:58, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The messages appear to apply only to that variant - which differs from the conventional Unix lint. Tedickey (talk) 00:18, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Where is lint now?[edit]

This article does a good job explaining that it is a static code analyzer. If fails to mention whether it is still in use anywhere, and if not, what it was been replaced with. I started using C on Windows in the early 90's and have not ever used lint. I also suspect that when people speak of using lint, they are really talking about lints replacements in a generic sense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.93.176 (talk) 15:48, 25 March 2010 (UTC) 75.73.93.176 (talk) 15:49, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The "vendor Unix" platforms all have lint, though it may be provided solely as part of a licensed development suite. Tedickey (talk) 20:49, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe extend the history to references the PL/1 Checkout compiler? - it does a lint type job and must predate lint - I used PL1-co around '82(it was a coding standard requirement) and we build standard make(1) files that ran lint(1) in about '84 under xenix on 8086/s100 systems - simon@logicalmodel.net — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.173.56.29 (talk) 16:14, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fortran example[edit]

For anyone unfamiliar with Fortran (which is almost everyone – I'm 56 and it was going out of fashion when it was briefly introduced on my B.Sc. Computer Science course in the 1980s), the Fortran example is pretty useless as it doesn't explain what the problem is or why the compiler can't see it. Dave.Dunford (talk) 15:47, 15 June 2021 (UTC) syntaxhighlight[reply]

Is the literal underline tag

<U>.</U>

in the Fortran example correct? I have never seen something like this in any Fortran code before...

Or: What is an underlined period in Fortran...? (talk) 18:05, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that my edit a while ago, to use syntax highlighting, broke the original intent of the example. I believe the period is supposed to be the problem, and the underline was highlighting it. It's not well explained though. I've reverted my edit, so that's one less level of confusion. (Hohum ^@) 22:19, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]