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On Saturday, February 28, 2004, at 08:04 AM, Booth Martin wrote:
what is "INLR" & "*INLR" ?
Oh hah, very droll! A rhetorical question if ever I saw one.
I've seen programs commented entirely in Latin, I've seen code where
every internal variable was a rude word or phrase, I've ported code
which had 12 different flags for sleep and the original programmer
resorted to national languages and spelling errors to distinguish them
so the code had variables called sleep, snooze, siesta, sieta, etc. You
can imagine what the rest of his code looked like. Complete CRAP!
Some years ago I inherited code where the programmer closed every
program with a quotation or verse reference from the Bible. Perhaps he
felt that all his effort was to the greater glory of God, or perhaps he
was exhorting his God to ensure the code worked correctly. I found such
comments offensive and removed them all. Faith has no place in an
environment predicated on logic. You might as well slaughter a goat
(goats again?) and place its entrails on the keyboard at midnight
(which is what some SRCs mean).
At one time in my youth I had to write a PLMI macro that had to get
stuff from a profile and put stuff in a profile. I called the macro
HOOVER and gave it two functions: SUCK retrieved stuff and BLOW stored
stuff. We (Antipodeans that is) thought it funny but our American
compatriots didn't find it at all amusing. They also had difficulty
with us saying we'd "knock up" some code ...
I currently have to work on code where the only comments are slagging
off IBM or some other staff member because the original programmer
didn't understand OS/400 nor the concept of backwards compatibility.
That's an exercise in frustration. Needless to say I remove the
offensive comments as I find them.
All these examples place a good case for code reviews.
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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