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Re: Bad news from the module/environment front


On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Doug Evans wrote:
> 
> Clever code is maintainable to the author (usually).
> Mental processes that went in to creating it are far more easily
> remembered than trying to grok the result from scratch.
> But in a group project (which Guile is and SCM isn't),
> that's irrelevant, no?
> 

At the risk of sounding like one of my old bosses, that's why you document
your clever ideas; short ones in commentary in the code, long ones in
separate documents. :P

(I know, I know, everyone hates that part...)

Randolph Fritz
Eugene, Oregon

"I just wanna *use* it."




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