He probably thought he didn't have time to sharpen the axe, he had trees to cut!
John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 2:40 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] Great presentation on commenting (or not commenting) your code In his case I don't think it was lack of ethics, I think he's just insane. I consider myself a fairly good foxpro programmer and it was completely unintelligible to me. Not to mention that every report was hand written instead of using the report writer, and there were no compound indexes, every index was its own file. And because is was so poorly written, some reports had to be run overnight because it would take too long otherwise. Insanity. --- On Thu, 6/9/11, MB Software Solutions, LLC <[email protected]> wrote: > From: MB Software Solutions, LLC > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NF] Great presentation on commenting (or not commenting) > your code > To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, June 9, 2011, 3:32 PM > On 6/9/2011 3:24 PM, Michael Madigan > wrote: > > I worked for a company where one guy wrote a > completely unintelligible program in foxpro. He had indexes and > relations based on recno(), completely cryptic descriptions, and > changed work areas back and forth rather than use the > databasname.fieldname conventions. > The poor bastards who owned the company don't know how close they are > to Armegeddon. > > > What makes a guy do that kind of thing? Does he have any shred of > ethics? > > -- > Mike Babcock, MCP > MB Software Solutions, LLC > President, Chief Software Architect > http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com > http://fabmate.com > http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** 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.
