Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!greg
From: greg@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 1000 lines of C a week?
Message-ID: <623@sce.carleton.ca>
Date: 15 Jun 89 18:02:08 GMT
References: <18783@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> <7800012@gistdev>
Reply-To: greg@sce.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <7800012@gistdev> flint@gistdev.UUCP writes:
>...I have seen programmers
>with a "we need something like this routine in 10 places, but it has to
>be slightly different in each, so we'll copy it into all 10 places and modify
>one line" mentality that really crank code out.

At a former employer, we called the same sort of operation "case and
paste".  Eg.  "Well, this new feature is almost the same as all of the
others but does this thing a little differently.  No problem..."
<select> move <cut> move <paste>...  and add a new case selector.  No
wonder our embedded applications kept running out of memory. *sigh*

>...  Give me the guy who knows
>enough to add a parameter to the routine anyday. 
> 

I'll second that.

-- 
Greg Franks                  Systems and Computer Engineering, 
utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!greg  Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
       uunet!mitel!sce!greg          greg@sce.carleton.ca
from Ottawa Ont, where life in the fast lane is skating two inners!