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- From: matthew@cs.mun.ca (Matthew J. Newhook)
- Subject: Re: Note to any fellow DikuMUD coders...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.231606.6328@cs.mun.ca>
- Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:16:06 GMT
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- stine@handel.psu.edu (Jeffrey Stine) writes:
- > And as I believe was more or less pointed out earlier, programming practices
- >are much a matter of opinion and have less to do with being "good" or "bad".
-
- Well, I certainly disagree with this. There is a significant
- difference between bad code and good code. And most of this is _not_
- subjective. If the code is spaghetti code then it is very hard to work
- with, let alone alter. All you have to do is work with some terrible
- code for a while and you will get irritated and start cursing this
- 'terrible' code. Of course you do work with the diku code don't you :)
-
- >I think I'd rather see someone write something useful in "bad" style than
- >not attempt it at all (I can always go back and improve on it), and that
- >is My Opinion (tm).
-
- That is true.
-
- > I don't have a period :)
-
- Well, you are male :)
-
- >Thanks to Gordon Henderson for summing up the results of the discussion,
- >I'm happy to see you got something from it (so it wasn't a total loss).
-
- An interesting discussion.
-
- Matthew
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- Matthew Newhook (matthew@engr.mun.ca) | "...get on with the fascination
- Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science | the real relation, the underlying
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