RE: Runtime KLIST change?

[boothm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

My gosh.  You are suggesting that one should not only write mystifying 
code, but then hide it so it can't be found be mere programmers?   Now, 
that is scary!

"never seen a piece of unmaintainable code that was written with some
kind of leading edge technology."    Let me mail  you a WSU program on 8" 
floppy to look at. 

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Booth Martin
boothm@earth.goddard.edu
http://www.spy.net/~booth
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Alan Campin <Alan.Campin@CaseLogic.com>
Sent by: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com
12/04/1999 09:39 PM
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        Subject:        RE: Runtime KLIST change?
...
Pointers usage, in my mind
anyway, should always be encapsulated in a function and hidden. Using
pointers in the general body of a program is scary to me and, of course,
there is always that fear that someone will misuse a powerful tool. 
...
I have never seen a piece of unmaintainable code that was written with 
some
kind of leading edge technology. Always the opposite. 2 or 3 thousand line
mainlines with the same logic repeating 10 times in 10 different versions
and one thousand line subroutines doing twenty different functions and all
doing what could have been done in a few hundred lines of code if properly
designed. Why engineer code when you can just start pounding code?
...

Now that's scary. 


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