Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!purdue!decwrl!sgi!daisy!david From: david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Control flow and common sense Message-ID: <1122@daisy.UUCP> Date: 6 May 88 17:53:49 GMT References: <4605@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <41445UH2@PSUVM> Reply-To: david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter) Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca. Lines: 16 One fellow I know documented a particularly complex and obscure code with the comment "This procudure implements thealgorithm 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. It is folks like him who justify, in my mind, the existence of nuclear weapons. -- David Schachter Disclaimer: My company disclaims me; being a gentleman, I return the favor.