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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 1997 22:52:35 +0000
From:      James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your commentary gripe (was  Re: svgalib? (forget the newbies) )
Message-ID:  <19971030225235.53006@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <19971030153058.18462@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 03:30:58PM %2B1030
References:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.971030105519.17577D-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> <199710300325.WAA20048@dyson.iquest.net> <19971029232514.13923@mph124.rh.psu.edu> <19971030153058.18462@lemis.com>

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On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 03:30:58PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> Does anybody remember the flow chart generators of the 70's?  They
> really produced nonsense like this in appropriate shaped boxes.  But
> it kept the managers happy :-)

One of my ex-lecturers admitted to writing an assignment-marking program
in the 70s that gave credit for well-structured code with lots of comments.
It didn't take very long for one of the students to realise they could
write a program to generate pointless comments...

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland.
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/



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