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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: MEL - A *Real* Programmer
Keywords: Real Programmer, Hacker
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.230322.9521@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 23:03:22 GMT
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Others said:
>>It has been my experience, on code I don't have to worry about others having
>>to maintain, that documenting each program...

>How can you ever be certain that nobody other than yourself will have to
>maintain your programs?  I feel that one should try to code as if one
>might get run over by a truck on the way home tonight!


This reminds me of one of my favorite computer cartoons.

The widow is standing at the gravesite, and the deceased's boss is
saying:
	I realise this is a bad time to ask, 
	But did Bob ever say anything to you 
	about source code?



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