From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 4 9:14:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (unknown [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2917814DCE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 09:14:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA18703; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:14:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA27343; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:14:03 -0600 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:14:03 -0600 Message-Id: <199906041614.KAA27343@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12 In-Reply-To: <199906041606.JAA11017@whistle.com> References: <199906041508.JAA27044@mt.sri.com> <199906041606.JAA11017@whistle.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > | I know of *NO* programmer who does not delight in completely ripping out > | and replacing existing code with code that he has written from scratch. > | It's great fun, and it allows the person to feel better about the > | system, themselves, and make sure that they can debug the existing code > | better. I do it all the time. But, I know for a fact that it's rarely > > I guess you don't really know me. I've always taken great pleasure in > fixing other peoples code. Does that mean you *don't* like writing your own code from scratch? I never said that people don't *also* enjoy figuring out other people's code, but it's often *much* less fun when you are the person responsible for maintaining it long-term. > I also like code without coments, it forces me to understand the actual > written code and derive the concept from it vs. assuming the concept that > has been described. Comments for me are to describe "black magic" ie. > bizare side-effect/hardware bugs. *Ewww* You *are* a special guy, aren't you. *grin* I need comments in my own code because I look at so much code nowadays that I forgot even why *I* did things at a later point. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message