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Re: Bad news from the module/environment front
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- Subject: Re: Bad news from the module/environment front
- From: Randolph Fritz <randolph@efn.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:48:06 -0700 (PDT)
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."