Re: "with" Coders are Monsters

Michael Little wrote:

Whats that point of gaining knowledge at all if we limit ourselves to expressing only what a less knowledgable person will understand. I'm not suggesting making our code deliberately obtuse, but limiting our use of the available technology purely to avoid confusing subsequent maintainers seems totally bizarre to me.

michael


Horsepuckey.

I consider myself to be a pretty competent coder. I consider myself to be one of the best 'code documenters' around. That's not to say that occasionally I don't do something 'quick and dirty', but in the main I understand that code will have to be maintained down the road.

Even given that, there are times I'll go back to code I've written (my OWN code) many years later, and either not understand what the heck I did, or will ask myself WHY the heck I did it that way.

There's no need to 'limit our use of technology', but if you ignore the fact that code maintenance is a major factor, you're mistaken -- and asking for trouble.

David Erbas-White
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