Re: McCabe package for Ada?

[agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!source.asset.com!vand@ucbvax .Berkeley.EDU (Laurence VanDolsen)]

In article <C7nIy3.312@crdnns.crd.ge.com> groleau@e7sa.crd.ge.com (Wes Groleau 
X7574) writes:
>If I had a nickel for the number of times somebody said "I don't know why
>I did that.  Must be needed somewhere else." ...

I can't help it, I have to tell this story.

Once upon a quarter of a century ago we were developing a major release
of a satellite control package every six months.  All of the code was in
assembler.  During final integration, and operational use, any defects
found were fixed with OCTAL patches.  For each new release, all of the
old defects had to be corrected in the assembler source.  This job was
usually given to one of the developers who had just rotated into
developemnt from field installation and test.  Sooo, this guy
incorporated the patches literally.  Where there had been a jump out of
a routine to an empty place in memory to incorporate a fix that would
not fit in line, he jumped out.  Where a convenient instruction, or even
operand field had been used as a mask value, he put a label on that
instruction, or its operand, and used it.  

I think this is now refered to as, "He just didn't get it."