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April 17, 2006
Prgramming rant....
I am a programmer, it's what I do for a living. And there are several things that bug the snot out of me when reading other peoples stuff (or OPP - Other Peoples Perl, yes I program in Perl).
- Global variables - Just don't use them they are evil. And they make trying to figure out where values come from really hard cause it looks like the come from no where!
- No comments - I am not you and I can't read your mind (specially from back in the past when you wrote the code). Comment your code!!!!!
- Use real variable names - Seriously, is it that hard? Maybe I don't know what the variable "w" does, cause it's kind of not specific. And if we go back to item 1, that variable "w" could have come from ANYWHERE in your code!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- It's really not necessary to prove how much smarter you are then the rest of us by writing code that is totally unreadable by mere humans. People will appreciate your brilliance far more if they actually know what you are doing.
OK I am done.....
Posted by Scott at April 17, 2006 04:01 PM
Comments
Have I mentioned how much I love that you're brilliant? Have I also mentioned that I need pictures to explain what you're talking about in regards to programming? hehe
Posted by: roque at April 17, 2006 05:31 PM