Editing Lint (software) (section)

{{Short description|Tool to flag poor computer code}}
{{Infobox software 
| name                   = Lint
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| author                 = [[Stephen C. Johnson]]
| developer              = [[AT&T Bell Laboratories]]
| released               = {{Release date and age|1978|07|26}}<ref name="BellLabs"/> 
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| operating system       = [[Cross-platform]]
| language = English
| genre                  = [[List of tools for static code analysis|Static program analysis tools]]
| license                = Originally [[Proprietary software|proprietary]] [[commercial software]], now [[free software]] under a [[BSD-license|BSD-like]] license<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/|publisher=lemis.com |title=UNIX is free! |date=2002-01-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219220353/http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf|archive-date=February 19, 2009 |title=Dear Unix enthusiasts |last=Broderick |first=Bill |date=January 23, 2002 |publisher=[[Caldera International]]}}</ref>
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| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]]
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'''Lint''' is the [[computer science]] term for a [[Static program analysis|static code analysis]] tool used to flag programming errors, [[Software bug|bugs]], stylistic errors and suspicious constructs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sublimelinter.com/en/v3.10.10/about.html|title=About SublimeLinter|work=The SublimeLinter Community, revision 1cecc79c|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230606032819/http://www.sublimelinter.com/en/v3.10.10/about.html |access-date=2020-03-29|archive-date=2023-06-06 }}</ref> The term originates from a [[Unix]] [[List of utility software|utility]] that examined [[C (programming language)|C language]] source code.<ref name="BellLabs">{{cite journal |last=Johnson |first=Stephen C. |author-link=Stephen C. Johnson |date=25 October 1978 |title=Lint, a C Program Checker |url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.56.1841 |url-status=dead |journal=Comp. Sci. Tech. Rep. |publisher=Bell Labs |pages=78–1273 |citeseerx=10.1.1.56.1841 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123141016/https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.56.1841&rep=rep1&type=pdf |archive-date=2022-01-23}}</ref>  A program which performs this function is also known as a "linter".