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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
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Subject: Re: comma operator:  keep away?
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Date: 25 Apr 89 03:39:11 GMT
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In article <1989Apr24.172219.817@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Anyone who says "any competent programmer ought to be able to understand
> that!" rather than "I should make my code as clear as possible!" is an
> amateur, and one with an ego problem at that.

When writing software, always assume that the next person reading
your code will be somebody much less qualified than you, and they
will be required to fix a very hot bug with little time for study.

You'll probably be right.

     Steve

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