Re: Worst extension ever?

nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard E Maine) wrote:

>Jim Klein <jameseklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> There are no bad extensions. There are just the ones I use and the
>> ones I don't use.
>
>That philosophy works up to a point.
>
>Then you find yourself having to work with someone else's code and
>figure out what the heck it is doing, or perhaps what it is intended to
>do, why it isn't working, and how to fix it. Then is when you start
>cursing the existance of some extensions.

I generally reserve my curses for the programer. :-)

I had to port an old IBM fortran program to a PC in 1990. The original
programmer used the call to the console lights as flags. It only took
3 days to find a guy at TRW who had kept a copy of a an old manual. He
faxed me a copy.

That was fun.
>
>SOme of the ones mentioned here don't really come up in that context,
>though. You don't really see comefrom used in codes that you have to
>fix, for example.

There are no bad programing languages, just programmers whose brains
do not operate the way mine does.


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