Posted on 07/02/2014 9:19:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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What, no COBOL?
“Fix code later???”
Well, update or change I mean. If nobody else can figure out my code, they have to call me back and pay me to do it, or pay someone else a bunch more money to redo it from scratch. Why should I leave a cheat sheet for my competition?
If they want to pay me extra for documentation, then maybe I’d do it. Otherwise, if they pay for the code, they get the code, not code + comments.
Now, I don’t do stuff like make the code intentionally obscure like the fellow you mentioned. I have just found the average skill level programmers usually have trouble figuring out what I am doing unless I explain it to them.
If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Well, at least they were *honest*...
Cheers!
Cheers!
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