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- From: mueller@b30.ingr.com (Phil Mueller)
- Subject: Re: C CODE LAyout
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.134347.23155@b30.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph
- References: <1992Dec11.020200.944@seq.uncwil.edu> <MARTINC.92Dec11214534@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> <1992Dec15.131848.22744@b30.ingr.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:43:47 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Dec15.131848.22744@b30.ingr.com> mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com ( Phil Mueller ) writes:
- >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 ).
-
- Let me clarify that.
- 10 years at Intergraph, first 2 not a programmer, next 2 as a programmer
- on a project that failed, last 6 on current project which is doing
- very well.
-
- --
- Phil Mueller mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com
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