From: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan)
Subject: Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code
Date: 1999/11/22
Date: 1999-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2x8_3.271$aj3.34645@news.wenet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 814jiq$d8l$1@nnrp1.deja.com
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In article <814jiq$d8l$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
>There's a rather interesting website mentioned on /. today titled "How
>To Write Unmaintainable Code" ( http://mindprod.com/unmain.html ).
>My own suggestions:
> 56. - The people who orignially named all the objects and packages
>you use were morons. Rather than try to convice them to change, just use
>renames and subtypes to rename everything to names of your own devising.
>Make sure to leave a few references to the old names in, as a trap for
>the unwary.
Hmmmm. On that renaming thingy. I just finished reading a fairly
ancient paper on software architecture design practice that complained
about the tyranny of the fixed module and method names used in
implementing software when that software was reused in a field where
those names were no longer appropriate. There may be more than one
valid viewpoint on the heavy use of renaming in Ada.
see:
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<em>Characteristics of Higher-level Languages for Software Architecture</em>,
<a
href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/able/www/paper_abstracts/salang-reqts-tr.html"
>abstract</a>, and
<a
href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/able/ftp/salang-reqts-tr.ps"
>postscript version</a>,
<br> a pretty good analysis of the inadequacies of then (1994)
current software architecture design methodologies.
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cited in:
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<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~Vit/publications/SA.html"
>Vitruvius Publications</a>
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-19 0:00 How To Write Unmaintainable Code Ted Dennison
1999-11-20 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-11-21 0:00 ` Steve Folly
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Kent Paul Dolan [this message]
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Kent Paul Dolan
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Kent Paul Dolan
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Herve Regad-Pellagru
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-28 13:08 How to write unmaintainable code Ludovic Brenta
2004-06-28 14:59 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-29 2:22 ` John B. Matthews
2005-11-22 19:05 How To Write Unmaintainable Code Martin Krischik
2005-11-23 2:24 ` David Trudgett
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