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Stephen Johnson and lint: Static Analysis Enters the Unix Toolchain

Stephen C. Johnson's lint separated deep diagnostic checking from fast C compilation, making static analysis a practical Unix tool for finding suspicious, nonportable and inconsistent code before execution.

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