Re: Case statement and Integers.

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:<Itiw8.3026>

> Bicycling to Hawaii is original - but it won't work either.  In
> Software Engineering, the point is to make something that works, not
> necessarily something original.  In fact, since you will abandon most of
> your code to your maintenance successors (one hopes you move on to new
> things!), and originality will just confuse them, originality itself is a
> downright *negative* aspect of code, to be used only when the negative is
> outweighed by the positive benefits of the novel technique.

Very nice post. Indeed, "originality considered harmful" would be a fun 
title for an extended article on the above theme. "cleverness considered
harmful" would be an appropriate sequel :-)