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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