Benno wrote: > On Wed Sep 21, 2005 at 13:09:52 +1000, Taryn East wrote: > >what nobody else is going to bite? :( > > I think this is because great code is code is due to the absence > of suckiness rather than the presence of brilliance. At least > IMHO.[1] > > So I think in the tradiation of anti-partterns, it is best to ask, > which code sucks and why, and then try to avoid doing that.
Years ago (like 1998 or so) I had a look at the then current Procmail sources. Those were truely blecherous. Indentation was totally random, there was repeated chunks of code all over the place etc etc. I ran away screaming. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right there." -- Steve Gonedes -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
