From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 30 16:17:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA23494 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:17:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA23477 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:17:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa2003176; 31 Oct 97 0:10 GMT Received: (from james@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA18476; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 22:52:37 GMT (envelope-from james) Message-ID: <19971030225235.53006@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 22:52:35 +0000 From: James Raynard To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your commentary gripe (was Re: svgalib? (forget the newbies) ) References: <199710300325.WAA20048@dyson.iquest.net> <19971029232514.13923@mph124.rh.psu.edu> <19971030153058.18462@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <19971030153058.18462@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 03:30:58PM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/