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- From: stine@handel.psu.edu (Jeffrey Stine)
- Subject: Re: Note to any fellow DikuMUD coders...
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- Organization: Penn State University
- References: <9212260257.AA22918@TIS.COM> <kwt1H$1cnb@atlantis.psu.edu> <9212261801.AA05796@TIS.COM>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 03:15:05 GMT
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- In article <9212261801.AA05796@TIS.COM> mjr@TIS.COM writes:
- >
- [...(much interesting and belated stuff removed)]
- >>libc, that is your stupid idea. The people we are talking about writing
- >>this probably would have no clue as to what to do in the case that
- >>the library routine they wished to use was "broken".
- >
- > Now who's on his high horse. ;)
-
- Not myself. Although it is true I don't have much patience for people
- that don't know where to begin and without trying ask a bunch of questions;
- I take it in stride and only offer something when I have something useful
- to say. Had you gone to the lengths you finally went to without being
- goaded there wouldn't be a problem and a few people that could have used
- the info would have benefited. There isn't much to be gleaned from:
- "what is this vomit"
- As you say they are your opinions and they ceratinly have merit now
- that I know the basis for them. Unexpressed reasons why you have have
- such opinions have no merit however.
- One last thing I would add though in `defense' of my opinion that it
- was ok. The importance of mud code is questionable in my eyes and unless
- you are a professional programmer, developing good programming practice
- - in as much as providing portability and avoiding "time bombs" goes -
- is not of great interest in this group. I personally would be careful
- of advocating a certain programming style in this environment where most
- people are a lot more concerned if it will work _now_. (Though I would
- like to see more well thought out code being used to improve the stature
- of muds)
- As I usually am, I was mainly being the devil's advocate :) , and
- certainly don't suggest that "make do" programming is better than
- the alternatives you have offered.
-
- P.S. the problem with the inet_nota() in SunOS (4.1.1) I refered to is
- no doubt local. It is nonetheless broken. Also the suggestion that
- the struct sockaddr_in may one day be changed resulting in problems
- is a risk that would affect a great deal of code and has little likelyhood
- in happening (More likely the the struct in_addr would be changed) and
- the person was using struct sockaddr anyway ;)
-
- P.P.S. obsolete code is what keeps programmers working. ;)
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