On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Bruno Gonzalez (aka stenyak) <sten...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with you on this. The other day I was about to add half a dozen new > settings to the config files (for the email-wave bot). I thought it would > take 5 minutes max, something like adding lines like this: > > value = settingsManager.get(key); > > But after 20 minutes traversing the code, writing each variable many times > in different files, with different syntaxes (camel case, underscore > separators, all-caps, and whatnot) throughout several code layers, I still > hadn't managed to reach the point of code where I actually wanted my bot to > use the damned settings. I'm all for future-proofing the design, but I > think that's a bit ridiculous. I don't want to imagine the fun in debugging > federation and ot algorithms when they fail, if it's all written like this. > > Ali and I half-joked about going on a killing spree to halve the amount of > code. I'm sure no practical functionality would be lost... :-)
Well, they say that if you want to change more than 25% of something, its often faster to just rewrite it. We should chat sometime about what we want to do with the wave in a box code. There's lots of well meaning nontechnical people on this list - and thats lovely. But us programmers should chat about what code we actually want to write. I don't know about other people, but I don't contribute to WIAB anymore because of the monstrosity it has become. I'd love to figure out a plan & get back into it. Although it sounds like maybe I should just hop on IRC. -J > -- > Saludos, > Bruno González > > _______________________________________________ > Jabber: stenyak AT gmail.com > http://www.stenyak.com
