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- From: potts@oit.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Criticisms Wanted
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 23:05:48 GMT
- Organization: Instructional Technology Laboratory, University of Michigan
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- References: <1992Nov11.170816.24497@cc.gatech.edu> <1992Nov11.175117.15325@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <1992Nov13.060823.1358@BofA.com>
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- In article <1992Nov13.060823.1358@BofA.com> dan@BofA.com (Dan Brockman) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.175117.15325@bcrka451.bnr.ca> sjm@bcrki65.bnr.ca (Stuart MacMartin) writes:
- >>
- >Reading source code is hardly a crime. He could be trying to fix the damned
- >bug his benighted colleague wrote into the program. He could be trying to
- >find the damned bug.
-
- If I could get by without doing it, I would certainly prefer it. The
- programmers that wrote some of the classes I'm using might have been
- making a lot of money, but they sure don't know how to write readable
- code. The biggest reasons seem to be:
-
- - this code wasn't really tested - if you actually inherit a class
- and use it, it bombs... (i.e., the beta application classes for Turbo
- Vision Development Toolkit).
-
- or
-
- - this class is so poorly documented that the programmer who wrote it knows
- how to use it and what can be done with it, but no one else can
- (i.e., TurboVision itself).
-
-
-
- --
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