Idiotic programming style edicts
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From: Walter Bushell on 11 May 2010 12:29 In article <4be95528.13559140(a)news.xs4all.nl>, raltbos(a)xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) wrote: > Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn(a)garlic.com> wrote: > > > raltbos(a)xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) writes: > > > Yup. A very corrupt, untrustworthy professional investment adviser, but > > > someone who made his profession out of giving investment advise. > > > > one might claim that it just represented the culture > > One might only do so correctly if one left out the word "just". Yes, the > culture around him was corrupt; but he was _the_ prime example of it. > > Richard He was made an example, to divert attention from people who were destroying wealth by less obvious means. -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
From: Chris Duck on 6 Jun 2010 00:01
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:13:11 -0700, "Jennifer Usher" <jennisuzan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >"Ahem A Rivet's Shot" <steveo(a)eircom.net> wrote in message >news:20100427174847.780a5f71.steveo(a)eircom.net... > >> I like this - they also get to experience the joys of working with >> other people's code that they haven't got the time to completely rewrite >> so >> they have to learn to read and understand it. > >Not a fun lesson to learn. I have waded through some very poorly written >code written by people who clearly had no idea what they were doing. It can >be especially bad when the person who wrote the code was clearly learning as >he went and was trying out stuff just to see what it would do. I've seen some horrible examples of that in C++, where the original programmer apparently decided to use every syntactical feature of the language, more or less at random. I guess you couldn't really blame him too much, considering that he was a 360 assembler programmer who had had a 1-week course in C++ and told to rewrite part of an ancient assembler program in C++. |