Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Control flow and common sense
Summary: Citations.
Message-ID: <2718@geac.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 12:57:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2718
Posted: Mon May  9 08:57:44 1988
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In article <1122@daisy.UUCP> david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter) writes:
| One fellow I know documented a particularly complex and obscure code with the
| comment "This procudure implements the  algorithm given
| on page  of  by ".  (The angle bracketed items
| are mine.)

| Real helpful.  If I want to understand his code, I have to get the book from
| a speciality bookstore or get my company to purchase library access at Stanford
| University.  Then, hoping the edition I get is the same as his (so the page
| numbers match), I read some author's description of the algorithm and hope
| the programmer implemented the algorithm exactly.  Great, just great.

That was probably me.  You'll find the photocopies of the pages in
the book in the file with the master man pages and design notes for
the program.

| It is folks like him who justify, in my mind, the existence of nuclear weapons.

That's odd, I don't **remember** working for a nuclear weapons
company...

--dave ((;-)) c-b
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