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Article #620857Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:35
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:35
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On Thu, 2018-02-22, Charles Richmond wrote: ... > Once I took over a program by a wretched programmer who was fired... > *not* promoted. I wish I still had the source code he wrote! You'd > *never* believe some of the stupid things he did. > > In the C programming language, he used FALSE as a variable and made it > equal to 1. Instead of using a function for repeated code, he just > repeated the code over and over whenever it was needed. Indentation was > all over the place with *no* system at all. This code was so bad (and > since I *knew* what the program was supposed to do), I threw out his > code and re-wrote the whole program. Had he been /really/ clever, he'd have made sure noone knew precisely what the program was supposed to do ... > Believe me... I was *much* better off doing this... and got a > working program much faster! /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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