I understand, but writing reports by hand when you have a pretty good report writer is counter-productive.
--- On Thu, 6/9/11, John Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > From: John Harvey <[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, 4:16 PM > 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.
