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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code
Date: 1999/11/24
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In article <s3e4likc3ef78@corp.supernews.com>,
  "Joe Wisniewski" <wisniew@acm.org> wrote:
> Using function renames, change the meaning of "+" to
> "-" and vice versa, etc. (OUCH)
>
> The only reason I thought of this was because I was debugging
> someone's code once (YES, IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE!!!).
> They had done a cut and paste on a function renames, and were
> sloppy and missed changing the actual function name.

Due to a cut'n paste error, I did that to myself once with '<' and '>'.
It took an entire 10 hour day to figure out. For weeks afterwards I was
complaining about the moron who wrote that code. :-)

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