Reply to: RE: Rush! ( was: RE: Once in a Lifetime, Twice in Forever)

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Thu Feb 28 05:19:16 2002

At 12:47 AM 28/02/2002 -0500, Glen Goodwin wrote:

>Also reminds me of "programmers" who can "write code" but seem unable to
>read other people's code. Has anyone else had this experience? I run into
>this sort of person all the time . . .

I quite often have problems reading other peoples code. This is typically
due to either

1) A total mess of spaghetti that requires you to have the same twisted
brain as the original author.

or

2) Frustrations as I read the code, thinking all the time "this isn't the
way to do this", "why the **** did you do this", etc, etc.

Well written code isn't usually a problem, although I'll admit that I
reviewed some code I wrote 20+ years ago just recently and couldn't make
much sense of it at all (tricky PDP-10 assembler). The structure was good,
I just couldn't understand the code!

Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au
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