[TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Thu Mar 22 03:34:03 AEST 2018


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 01:28:34PM -0400, Paul Winalski wrote:
> On 3/21/18, Arthur Krewat <krewat at kilonet.net> wrote:
> >
> > It was instilled in me early on by my one and only mentor that someone
> > that comes along later may have no idea what my code is doing. So
> > comment. Even when it might be self-explanitory, comment anyway.
> 
> In my 40-year career as a programmer, I've more than once had that
> someone who comes along later be myself.

Yep.  Someone once told me "any code that you wrote more than 6 months
ago might as well have been written by someone else.  So write it in a
way that you can debug it".



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