On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:15:34 GMT, john smith wrote:

In article ,
"Roger (K8RI)" wrote:

We had one programmer who was always neatly dressed. I had to rewrite
a lot of his code as it was difficult to read and he didn't know what
internal documentation meant. Neat dresser, sloppy programmer albeit
the stuff worked.

Wait a minute... you re-wrote his code and you are giving him credit for
it working?

That is because they did work.

He wrote working programs. They did what they were supposed to do. I
reorganized them into logical order using what is called "pretty
printing" which makes the source code easy to read for those who come
along behind. I then added internal documentation.

Both of the above are things unknown to management. They only care if
the code works for the original job.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com