transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2932

Let me guess... he argued that this generated faster code than doing it with an aggregate table?

I have had to edit programs where I found stuff like this in C or Perl:

printf("blah blah blah-n" ) ;}

I mean, no concern whatsoever for indentation or even readable formatting.

I've also seen people come up with really wierd variable naming conventions, or those which simply take good ideas too far:

floatvarreferencingtotal = &floatvarholdingtotal; ... ... ... }

But far worse at times is the boneheaded stuff:

int function() { char buffer1000; return buffer; }

...and then so it used like:

buf = function(); anotherbuf = function();

They just happen to get lucky and don't trip on their stacks, and so they don't see that there is a problem. "We'll fix it if we see a problem."

I've always hated the fact that so many got into programming for the money.

I can't think of a worse reason, because if you don't love it, you'll definitely hate it no matter how much you make, and-or you just won't have the drive to do a good job.

-- shannon "AT" widomaker.com -- There is a limit to how stupid people really are -- just as there's a limit to the amount of hydrogen in the Universe. There's a lot, but there's a limit. -- Dave C. Barber on a.f.c.