Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Thu Jun 26 18:16:35 CDT 2008
Uh, isn't that why they invented *comments*? Properly commented geek code isn't any harder to understand later than properly commented MMW code. It's the totally undocumented stuff that makes you think of changing careers, regardless of how it's written. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:33 PM To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues. Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Getting TextReader from strings... Even worse is when you get called back to modify the project two years later and have to try and work out what you did all that time ago :-( On 26 Jun 2008 at 18:30, Gustav Brock wrote: > simply doesn't pay off. One example is that - most of us, I guess - > often copy snippets of code from one project to another to reuse not > as is but as a skeleton for something similar. If you have to spend > several minutes just figuring out how your original code works, you > are wasting your time. The real lesson is when you after many minutes > still can't find out - that's when I stopped playing smart. > _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com