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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: software engineering and the notion of authorship
Date: 1996/07/10
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organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Date: 1996-07-10T00:00:00+00:00
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"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!"


Of course, the fault lies here not with the programmer, but with he
environment and management which allowed this code to be placed into
the system. The programmer should have been forced to write in a reasonable
style or gotten rid of. There is no such thing as an "extremely god
a