Re: online C programming test

From: Richard Heathfield (dontmail_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 02/04/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:55:04 +0000 (UTC)

Peter Pichler wrote:

<snip>

> I must regretfully say that most GPL code I
> have seen looks worse. Moreover it is usually highly non-portable. Is
> there a clause in GPL that I missed that says that the source must be
> unreadable?

No, but there does seem to be some kind of underlying ethos of "I'm doing
this for free, so I don't have to be legible", which I find appalling. I go
to a lot of trouble to make my own code readable. Whether I succeed is for
others to judge for themselves, but at least I try. I wish this were more
common. 

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