Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code

["Joe Wisniewski" <wisniew@acm.org>]

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.

Joe

Ted Dennison wrote in message <814jiq$d8l$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>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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