22 Mar
2018
22 Mar
'18
8:24 a.m.
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018, Larry McVoy wrote:
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".
Yep, and I'm glad that I had bosses to whom I didn't have to explain why
my comments were so voluminous.
And who first said "Write your code as though the next person to maintain
it is a psychotic axe-wielding murderer who knows where you live"? I've
often thought that way (as the murderer I mean, not the murderee).
I'd name names, but he might be on this list...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."