Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C++ Not Ready for Commercial Use
Message-ID: <1989Oct24.172619.2146@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <24.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP> <2169@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <11859@fluke.COM> <2176@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 89 17:26:19 GMT

In article <2176@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
> ...
>4. Get a red pen.
>5. Simply *read* the listing. It's truly amazing the number of problems/bugs
>   you find this way...

Just to add some reinforcement to this:  if you're not in a big hurry to
get the code out the door, let it sit for a week without looking at it
before you do this.  This doubles the amazement.

I did this repeatedly before shipping my freely-redistributable regular-
expression code.  The code was much improved as a result.
-- 
A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu