On Apr 19, 3:51�am, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <m...@microcorp.co.za> wrote: > "Mensanator" <mens...@aol.com> wrote: > > 8< ---------- description of bugs in spaghetti --------------- > > Looks like that design really needed sorting out!
Since I was translating to Pascal, I couldn't emulate that code if I wanted to. > > >A programmer once said to me "Why should I run it, I know > >how it works, I wrote it." > > Are you serious? Absolutely. > In my opinion, anybody who says this is not a programmer, > but merely an arrogant idiot with a lot of misplaced self- > confidence - somewhat like a permanent force corporal. That might have contributed to the reason why we din't sell too many systems. The last product developed ran on an IBM RISC PC using the PICK operating system. We sold nearly one. > > > > >My reply: "You only THINK you know how it works. _I_, on > >the other hand, ACTUALLY know how it works because I've > >run it." > > How did you manage to keep your reply so meek? He got paid more than I did. > You must be a really well brought up person. > :-) But not behind their backs. A program I created that tested anuther programmer's attempt at making a hash table was labeled HASHIT. Said programmer was long gone when the customer called and wanted to know why his 10000 record database was saying it was full when only 3000 employees had been entered. Turned out that the hashing algorithm could not access any more than 3000 of the 10000 available records. This isn't the kind of thing Field Service is supposed to have to deal with. > > - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
