Re: Infinit loop in /free

["Alan E." <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You said it in a nutshell, Booth.

There are still many places where you have to convince the
non-technical higher-ups to let you attack this monster once
and for all, and give you lots of time to do it. But it's
something that works okay for him right now and there are
lots of other urgent projects in the works. Sometimes there
are other legitimate reasons, like the intent to can the
whole thing pretty soon.

-- Alan

From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
| "dozens of nesting levels" scares the daylights out of me.
That sounds to me
| like a programming monster waiting to bite the programmer
that touches it.
| In my experience these programs usually have hundreds of
lines of code,
| convoluted logic that has evolved over decades, and
redundant code. "Leave"
| and "iter" are needed for the programmer's self defense,
but I can not
| believe the platform is well served with those kinds of
programs remaining
| as legacy.
|