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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: How To Write Unmaintainable Code
Date: 1999/11/19
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There's a rather interesting website mentioned on /. today titled "How
To Write Unmaintainable Code" ( http://mindprod.com/unmain.html ).
There's a lot of good stuff in there that is applicable to any language.
But I noticed that about %20 of the "suggestions" won't work in Ada.
Howwever, I suspect if we tried we could replace many of those 11
entries with Ada specific ones.

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.
   57. - Make everything possible a generic. Don't stop until you at
least have generics with parameters that are instantiated generics who
also took in instantiated generic parameters. If anyone complains,
explain how this makes your sattelite groundstation code flexible enough
to be reinstantiated as a soda-machine controller.



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T.E.D.


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