Reply to post: Re: Well, this article'll cause some arguments, eh?

'Boss, I've got a bug fix: Nuke the whole thing from orbit, rewrite it all'

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Re: Well, this article'll cause some arguments, eh?

"And this is why you don't do it. The most important job source code has is to inform other programmers of your intent."

No, the most important job it has is to solve the problem. Not every problem is "hello world". Some like video codecs or encryption are fundamentally hard and the code will be complex no matter what you do so newbies have no business going anywhere near it.

"All comments fundamentally say the same thing."

Thats probably the dumbest thing I've seen posted on El Reg for some time.

"PS I'm in the gotos are bad camp. Does it show?"

That and the fact that you're all theory and no practice.

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