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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Hugh Dunne Subject: Re: software engineering and the notion of authorship Date: 1996/07/11 Message-ID: <4s2eut$9ij@romeo.logica.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 167757604 references: <01BB6E34.8313FAA0@idc213.rb.icl.co.uk> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Logica UK plc x-url: news:01BB6E34.8313FAA0@idc213.rb.icl.co.uk mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 1.12IS (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) Date: 1996-07-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Simon Johnston 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!" -- --------------- http://www.vjf.com/PUBLIC/86/27186.html --------------- Hugh Dunne/Logica UK Ltd/Stephenson House/75 Hampstead Rd/London NW1 2PL The above are strictly my own personal opinions | dunneh@lhd.logica.com and in no way reflect the opinions of Logica. | +44 171 446-1608