On 28 June 2013 18:17, M Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote: > It be Friday...
Tell me about it. It's been one of those weeks. > But it IS stressful because I seem to get a lot of the last minute > do-it-now stuff that people have blown off for 3 weeks... 7 new installations this week (including a nuclear power station!) and a large installation (30 users) going live this weekend. Next week I'm on my own supporting both our xBase app and our C#/SQL app. I'm supposed to be implementing credit card support. Like that's going to happen. > When I write code (in MS Access or ASP), I just cobble it together > since I just try and get the gist of something going so I then know > how much more time/effort it might take to get the whole thing done. > > So I tend to start off w/ variable names like good ol' X or X1 or X2 > etc.... just to get the thing running. You're not alone... > So I'm not sure which is the worse case of laziness - not doing proper > var names to begin with (even though not really sure where I'm going > to go with the program in general), or not using the lightening fast > and accurate tool that would have done the renaming work for me in the > first place.... One of the advantages of a strongly typed language (C#, Java, ...) is that you have code refactoring tools available. The IDE/Compiler does the hard work of renaming variables - it's great! -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CADwx0++SP_d3OyBFisvfcdxnpDB=dmiuacg7o4b5qcp4tk8...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
