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- From: mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com ( Phil Mueller )
- Subject: Re: C CODE LAyout
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.131848.22744@b30.ingr.com>
- Sender: mueller@b30.ingr.com (Phil Mueller)
- Organization: Intergraph
- References: <1992Dec11.020200.944@seq.uncwil.edu> <MARTINC.92Dec11214534@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:18:48 GMT
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- In article <MARTINC.92Dec11214534@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
- >
- > [stuff deleted]
- >
- >I frankly have always found it very difficult to believe that anyone who
- >suggests such a style has any professional software engineering
- >experience. My experience has *always* been that, on examination, the
- >people who discourage detailed comments in code have spent their entire
- >professional career in academic settings, writing code in a small group,
- >with relatively little maintenance of code by anyone other than the
- >author, and in general with products of only a few thousand lines of
- >code.
- >
-
- I code with very few comments ( other than the infamous header ).
- 10 years at Intergraph.
- 10 programmers + support personnel ( i.e. management ).
- ( not sure how this compares with other shops ).
- with turnaround
- plenty of maintenance by other people.
- 900000 lines in 6 years.
- ( first 2 years not a programmer; next 2 years on a failed project ).
- --
- Phil Mueller mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com
- The preceeding opinions are not necessarily those of Intergraph Corporation.
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