Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:35:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: kruptos@netzero.net (Kevin Brunelle) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C style continued.... (Craig and Terry) Message-ID: <200101232335.QAA03488@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3A6DD0B2.B473AF52@netzero.net> from "Kevin Brunelle" at Jan 23, 2001 01:42:58 PM
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> Yeah, a good coder can write in whatever style he/she needs > to but they don't have to like it. The only time I was happy writing > code for that class was when we were paired up for final projects. I was > paired with a person who was a mediocre programmer at best. I was able > to write 95% of the code, and he made it fit the style guide. ;-) All I can say for dealing with idiotic requirements is "man indent". > A little side note here: This teacher is totally stuck in his way of > doing things. Another issue I had with him was licensing. He wanted all > the code in class GPL'd I wanted my code to be BSD'd. He said that was > fine, but any code that wasn't GPL wasn't graded. It took a week to get > him to elaborate on the issue any further than that, and I am still > writing under the GPL for the class unless "... an act of god forbids > it." There is always political danger around university departments, but... IMO, this is extortion, and is not legal. I am reminded of the Rutherford barometer story, which also starts out with a professor being unwilling to grade a student... http://rhs.rocklin.k12.ca.us/Physics/anecdotes/barometer.htm Worse comes to worse, you could just follow the recent patent grants in any area you're asked to code, and use a patented algorithm, for which you are not legally entitled to grant blanket rights, nor is the University. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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