Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!BOGECNVE.BITNET!XMAS From: XMAS@BOGECNVE.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370 Subject: Re: Bogon interrupts... Message-ID: <9105301405.AA17351@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 30 May 91 14:07:09 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion List Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 >But there are some that would want even the expert programmers to follow >the practices that make it possible for so many others to program, and >then uses excuses like "that someone else might have to maintain it". What specific practices inhibit expert programmers from writing good code that cause maintenance to be so much more difficult? >If someone else has to maintain it, then we are back to depending on the >lower common denominator. This seems to be getting on "religious" grounds, but I would like to add: If you maintain somebody elses code, I (imho) think you have a tougher job than the designer. A maintainer has to learn to think like the author in order to fix or enhance the original product. If you disagree, you haven't dealt with much of what IBM distributes ;-> especially in terms of fixing. ... Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark A. Stevens BITNET: XMAS@BOGECNVE Educational Computing Network Internet: xmas@ve.bogecn.edu Governors State University Phone: 708-534-0200 University Park, IL 60466 FAX: 708-534-0054