From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Coding for Obscurity Date: 1997/11/23 Message-ID: <34785C09.69A5@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 291844728 References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <34466EB4.3381@dynamite.com.au> <6275dt$agm$3@news.on> <344BCED0.2D51@dynamite.com.au> <62tpap$7gh$1@darla.visi.com> <3470EF6E.F74@lysator.liu.se> <64qsf0$ccc@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> <3474BF28.2F9F@dynamite.com.au> <34741AAF.1C7@CWA.de> Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation Reply-To: achrist@easystreet.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Somebody wrote: >> From the new Subject: I assume you have drawn the conclusion that I >> code in the above manner (the first 'weird' if(), I don't use the >> second, but the point was that 'style imperialism' is stupid) to >> purposely obfuscate. Nothing can be further from the truth. >> >> Obfuscated code can be written in absolutely any language, by >> absolutely everyone. In a bad spot, a decidedly 'clean' >> coder can churn out a potful of spaghetti code. But if you are getting into C++, there's a clue on page 12 in the _Notes_to_the_Reader_ of Stroustrup's _The_C++_Programming_Language_ (3rd edition). "Million line C++ programs are not uncommon". This form of expression warns the reader right up front that non-avoidance of non-unconvoluted expression by non-eschewers of C++ is not dissimilarly not uncommon. Or as Marx said, "I can't say that I don't disagree with you." Al