Re: come, help me with something more productive

2007-12-16 Thread Nick Holland
bofh wrote: Heh. I think we're having far too much fun in the other threads. I have a serious question. thank goodness. :) I'm a mangler in a largish company. We have developers, and contractors. No coding standards and all that, so, things are... messy. I'm not in charge of

Re: come, help me with something more productive

2007-12-16 Thread knitti
On 12/14/07, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh. I think we're having far too much fun in the other threads. I have a serious question. I'm a mangler in a largish company. We have developers, and contractors. No coding standards and all that, so, things are... messy. I'm not in charge of

Re: come, help me with something more productive

2007-12-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 09:13:49PM +0100, knitti wrote: On 12/14/07, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh. I think we're having far too much fun in the other threads. I have a serious question. I'm a mangler in a largish company. We have developers, and contractors. No coding standards

come, help me with something more productive

2007-12-14 Thread bofh
Heh. I think we're having far too much fun in the other threads. I have a serious question. I'm a mangler in a largish company. We have developers, and contractors. No coding standards and all that, so, things are... messy. I'm not in charge of development, but I want to help them develop

Re: come, help me with something more productive

2007-12-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
bofh wrote: Heh. I think we're having far too much fun in the other threads. I have a serious question. I'm a mangler in a largish company. We have developers, and contractors. No coding standards and all that, so, things are... messy. I do *NOT* speak for the developers (flames

Re: come, help me with something more productive

2007-12-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 17:34:11 Dec 14, bofh wrote: Heh. I think we're having far too much fun in the other threads. You mean threads or thread? ;) ha ha I have a serious question. Shoot. I'm a mangler in a largish company. We have developers, and contractors. No coding standards and all that, so,

Re: come, help me with something more productive

2007-12-14 Thread bofh
On Dec 14, 2007 7:35 PM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with coding standards is that they generally at best help slightly with things that do not matter, generally at the expense of everything that actually does matter. There are uses for it. You want some kind of