From: Hugh Dunne <dunneh@lhd.logica.com>
Subject: Re: software engineering and the notion of authorship
Date: 1996/07/11
Date: 1996-07-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4s2eut$9ij@romeo.logica.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01BB6E34.8313FAA0@idc213.rb.icl.co.uk
Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG> wrote:
>I had to maintain a large chunk of code which had only one comment =
>(well,
>I tell a lie, there were two: a commented out chunk of code -- with no
>reason -- and the copyright notice) and a lot of one or two letter
>identifiers. And code reviews were not a political practicality with
>that piece of code: it had been written by the _founder_ of the
>company before I joined. And he had left.
>
>We have a similar story here, a well known and extremely good assembler =
>programmer wrote a large (>800 line) assembler package with one comment, =
>next to a Jump-If-Equal statement he wrote the single comment "Jump here =
>if not equal" - Wonderful!
Some of the (few) comments seen in the source code of a certain
Ada compiler vendor's run time system:
"Go backwards or die!!!"
"Stupid Ada!"
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1996-07-10 0:00 ` software engineering and the notion of authorship Robert Dewar
1996-07-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Hugh Dunne [this message]
1996-06-21 0:00 Language Choice and Coding style Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-05 0:00 ` software engineering and the notion of authorship Fergus Henderson
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Jakob Engblom
1996-07-08 0:00 ` John Byerly
1996-07-08 0:00 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Paul Eggert
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Mike Curtis
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
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