On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 08:47:24 -0600, Edward Gould wrote: >> >> "For example, he would code around bugs found in other tiers of the code -- >> never fixing the bug at the source, just coding around it everywhere else. >> IBM does that, to my dismay.
>> He also would change course mid-development, then leave all the dead-end >> orphan code in place. I can never tell if an unexplainable line of code is >> orphan junk or the string that would unravel the entire app." >> And I did that, once. I loaded a register and never used it. Then I transferred to another department. Every few years one of my successors would contact me and ask about the instruction. I concurred that it was needless and should probably be removed; no longer under my control. Each time it was left unchanged. "If it works, don't fix it!" I haven't heard of it lately; perhaps someone dared to delete it. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
