Re: [FWP] Badly written code

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 07:05:21PM -0500, Chip Turner wrote:
> > Lots of people aren't as
> > good as we are; we should either stay quiet or offer help, not
> > ridicule.
> 
> I have to disagree here.  While maybe FWP or clpm are not the ideal
> forums for such a thrashing, ...

Indeed, fwp is *certainly* not the proper forum for it.
But it would be just another day in the life of clpm.


> it does serve a very important purpose.
> It acts as a peer code review.  A really harsh and grisly one, but it
> serves the purpose none the less.
> 
> Remember, this is a case of a programmer displaying what he thought
> was good code.  He didn't seem to understand that there was a better
> way or that he was doing anything incorrect.  We act as a peer group
> since he seems to be lacking one.  Even if it is a harsh lesson, the
> lesson will probably be learned.

Unfortunately not.  Uri specifically brought it up on fwp so as to
NOT be visible to the coder.  The intent was to have a laugh at
his expense, not to peer-review.


> Snobbish?  Elitist?  Off-topic?  Probably.  

You mean indubitably.


> But it's better than
> saying nothing and letting him going on thinking nothing's wrong and
> he's doing well.  Or (god forbid) teaching others.

But wrt to the coder, that's exactly what we've done: nothing, because
he doesn't read fwp.

-- 
John Porter


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