[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

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