Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site ur-laser.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!ur-laser!tomk From: tomk@ur-laser.uucp (Tom Kessler) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: more about programming style Message-ID: <310@ur-laser.uucp> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 10:12:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ur-laser.310 Posted: Thu Jul 11 10:12:23 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 10:24:05 EDT References: <11457@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Lab for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester Lines: 20 >Luckily, some of the code is readable, so I hope that what is >wrong is in that. Let's say the problem with the program is that a >variable is being incremented when it shouldn't be. However I don't >know that the variable is being incremented because I see this cryptic >"stuff++" which I pretty much ignore because the code is full of things >like that which gets lost in the shuffle. I'm lost, the programmer >doesn't know what's wrong, and we're stuck. If you're too lazy to leaf through a book on the programming language and try to understand the fundamental idioms of a language ( even if you're not too bright it shouldn't take more than a few hours to become familiar enough with a new language to be able to read it ) you have no business trying to read the code. -- -------------------------- Tom Kessler {allegra |seismo }!rochester!ur-laser!tomk Laboratory for Laser Energetics Phone: (716)- 275 - 5101 250 East River Road Rochester, New York 14623