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On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:48:13PM -0800, Timothy Knox wrote:
> Ah, what joy that would be, but alas and alack, my career has
> consisted mostly of maintaining code not written by me. In fact, my
> current job is not only code not written by me, but often so
> abyssmally awful, with only the excuse, "Yeah, well
> <the-guy-who-wrote-this> is not here any more." Pfui!
>
> On the other hand, the guy who inherited the build system showed me a
> comment in the code to the effect "This is the wrong way to do this,
> but by the time it becomes a problem I expect to be long gone." Nice,
> eh?
it's the inheritor's problem now.
the only thing worse than hating software is endlessly complaining about
it rather than make it less hateful.
or is the fixing more hateful than the unfixed hate?
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Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
"silly brewer, saaz are for pils!" -- virt
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