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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Portability of code & skills (Beware of "C" Hackers etc)
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 09:32:51 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <DoI5Ao.AyJ@assip.csasyd.oz>,
- Don Harrison <donh@syd.csa.com.au> wrote:
- >:What does selfishness have to do with anything? It's just a matter of using
- >:undefined and implementation defined behavior. The problem is laziness to learn
- >:the language properly.
- >
- >I'm thinking of those who hack because they expect they won't be around to
- >maintain their handiwork. It is selfishness because they don't care about the
- >person maintaining it. Call it laziness, if you prefer.
-
- I see what you are referring to. I'd also call it a poor work ethic and lack of
- self-respect. For one thing, the person who has to maintain the code after you
- will curse your name! That's Bad Karma.
-
- Sometimes it's tempting to just blow something off: it depends on all kinds of
- circumstances surrounding the job that have nothing to do with computer
- science. :)
-
- >Those who hack knowing they are the maintainer are just fools.
-
- Too true. But even if you _are_ the maintainer, you may shoot yourself in the
- foot when you come back to some code you wrote a year ago and say, "what the
- heck is that?".
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