1 Jan
2013
1 Jan
'13
9:01 p.m.
On 01/01/2013 08:33 PM, Richard wrote:
In article <50E342F8.5020607 at sydex.com>,
Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
To be honest, even my throwaway code is well-commented and clean.
What surprised me was that about half of the instructions that I made
use of were no longer part of the current architecture. The editor
served the purpose to demonstrate some oddball instructions
(microprogramming gone mad) rather than offer a full-featured editor for
production use.
What horrified me was that someone had worked very hard with my original
code to emulate those long-gone instructions, instead of writing a
better editor from the ground up.
--Chuck
Moral: If you write throw-away code [...]
Moral: it is not throw-away code, if you don't actually throw it away.