From: David Trudgett <wpower@zeta.org.au.nospamplease>
Subject: Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:24:36 +1100
Date: 2005-11-23T13:24:36+11:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ek58w17f.fsf@rr.trudgett> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2245729.b8pZ1X4Y0u@linux1.krischik.com
Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Hi there.
>
> http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
>
> and search for "Ada" ;-).
It's a funny read! One of the good chuckles (for a Lisp programmer)
was towards the end, where the author thought he would take a
"serious" tack, and started a paragraph with: "Think of what might
happen if we started storing source code as structured data." :-) This
is, of course, exactly how Lisp works.
Admittedly, the author must have had in mind a type of structure that
is a whole lot more detailed and complex than a Lisp program, but that
didn't get in the way of a good chuckle! ;-)
I also liked the bit where it was recommended to reject the use of Ada
because one's huge suite of tools, such as lint, which work around C's
shortcomings, would no longer be able to be used.
David
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2005-11-22 19:05 How To Write Unmaintainable Code Martin Krischik
2005-11-23 2:24 ` David Trudgett [this message]
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2004-06-28 13:08 How to write unmaintainable code Ludovic Brenta
2004-06-28 14:59 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-29 2:22 ` John B. Matthews
1999-11-19 0:00 How To Write Unmaintainable Code Ted Dennison
1999-11-20 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-11-21 0:00 ` Steve Folly
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Kent Paul Dolan
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Kent Paul Dolan
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Kent Paul Dolan
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Herve Regad-Pellagru
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