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From: dwh@twg.com (Dave W. Hamaker)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: MEL - A *Real* Programmer
Keywords: Real Programmer, Hacker
Message-ID: <8227@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 6 Nov 90 04:58:07 GMT
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mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti) writes:

>In article <8187@gollum.twg.com> dwh@twg.com (Dave W. Hamaker) writes:
>>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!

Programs I write on my own time for my own use are subject to my own whims.
Of course, I don't give code like that away without either warning the
recipient or enhancing the documentation.

>Just to add fuel to the fire, I think that using "i" (or any other single
>letter name" for a variable is horrible practice.  Try searching for all
>occasions of it in a function!

grep '[^_a-z]i[^_a-z]' prog.c