In his case I don't think it was lack of ethics, I think he's just insane. I consider myself a fairly good foxpro programmer and it was completely unintelligible to me. Not to mention that every report was hand written instead of using the report writer, and there were no compound indexes, every index was its own file. And because is was so poorly written, some reports had to be run overnight because it would take too long otherwise.
Insanity. --- On Thu, 6/9/11, MB Software Solutions, LLC <[email protected]> wrote: > From: MB Software Solutions, LLC <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NF] Great presentation on commenting (or not commenting) your > code > To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, June 9, 2011, 3:32 PM > On 6/9/2011 3:24 PM, Michael Madigan > wrote: > > I worked for a company where one guy wrote a > completely unintelligible program in foxpro. He had > indexes and relations based on recno(), completely cryptic > descriptions, and changed work areas back and forth rather > than use the databasname.fieldname conventions. > The poor bastards who owned the company don't know how close > they are to Armegeddon. > > > What makes a guy do that kind of thing? Does he have > any shred of ethics? > > -- > Mike Babcock, MCP > MB Software Solutions, LLC > President, Chief Software Architect > http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com > http://fabmate.com > http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
