[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pierre Fortin) writes: > Oden Eriksson wrote: > > > > On Wednesdayen den 28 November 2001 16.03, Pierre Fortin wrote: > > > > > continue proliferating *spaghetti coded* GUI configurators and ignore the > > > > What exactly is "spaghetti code"?. I never heard that expression before... > > An ancient computing term for code which does stuff outside its realm of > responsibility... for instance, I can understand why CUPS messes with > /etc/hosts' localhost configuration line; but it would make more sense to have a > scheme where the networking code is responsible for /etc/hosts. [At least, Till > fixed it to *only* change that line instead of overwriting the entire file as > 8.1 CUPS does now...] > > Kinda like if I wrote a Tax program which, as a side-effect, changed your X > modeline... > > Makes for very unstable, unreliable, and unsupportable systems... gee... I > just described Winders... :^)
drakxtools are everything but not spaghetti code. except maybe brand new tools. -- dam's
