boblq wrote: > On Friday 02 June 2006 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've tried to avoid jobs where I have to read other >> people's source too in depth or too often. >> >> Compared to writing code yourself, learning other >> people's code in damn painful and tedious. > > Amen! > >> This limits my chances to contribute to many >> open source projects unless I start projects myself. >> >> Anyone else feel like I do? How fix? >> >> Chris > > LOL. One way is to avoid jobs. Create your own, > e.g. become an entrepreneur. For some folks it is > a choice. For others the only alternative since some > of us are by nature unemployable. > > "You said, what??!!! to who????" >
Well, maybe it takes a touch of masochism, but I have always liked reading code, and have found great satisfaction in 1) unwrapping some mysteries 2) figuring out how to fix it Of course, sometimes it just gets too deep -- cost / benefit tradeoff, I guess. I believe that building a tolerance for this pain, to the point of being somewhat decent at the often-maligned maintenance programming, actually makes one appreciate the concept of programming for maintainability, which some would say is of overwhelming importance. ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
