[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <G7CdnaLTgOJzUarNnZ2dnUVZ_tednZ2d at giganews.com>,
 "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Coding need not be arcane!  There are, however, a good many people who 
> write arcane code.  Some think that there are too many writers of arcane 
> code!  A lot of it winds in the trash because no one other than the 
> author can understand how it works and/or what it is supposed to do!

That's why extensive accurate comments, kept up to date, are required.

A long time ago, in a company far away, I heard of a product, written by 
one man, with maybe 10,000 lines of code, and only two comments.  They 
brought him back to comment his code at a rate of $50/hr, in the late 
1980s.  He added comments like "What the fuck is this??" and "????", 
took his money and ran.  The program was properly documented and coded 
by a meticulous female programmer who made a thick binder-full of 
documentation on the program, module by module.

I swear, female programmers are better than males.  Maybe they're more 
patient.

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