Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ?
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Fri Aug 12 2005 03:35 pm

Charles Richmond wrote:

> IMO you have omitted one reason:  really *bad* programmers. I took over
> some code from a guy who was fired, and it was the worst I have ever
> seen. Sections of code that should have been made functions...were just
> copied over into the program when needed. In C, the word TRUE is typically
> defined as 1 and FALSE defined as 0. This guy made FALSE an integer variable,
> and changed the value a few times in the code. Worst of all, the code
> was all over the place, with *no* consistent indentation even attempted.
> 
> I had to toss out his code and write the application over. In so doing,
> I found that when the original programmer did *not* understand how to
> handle certain inputs, he would just ignore those inputs.
> 
> So be sure and add "bad programmers" to your list of problems.
> 

I know that guy. He's a highly paid manager now :-)

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