Re: How clean is your code

How clean is my code? Pretty good as far as prfanity. How's my code as far as odd variable/subroutine naming? Better to tilt at windmills and call them silly names than swear outloud.

I guess the answer to the first question hints at my answer to the second. If you're going to call yourself a professional, you need to act as a professional as well. I can think of a couple parallels in life:

I have a 22-month old son. Is it OK for me to swear when I'm at home with my family but make sure I'm on my best behavior in public? Am I setting a good example for my son?

I'm involved in a search and rescue team. Is it OK for me to ridicule someone who is lost and I'm out in the woods looking for?

Oren

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Re: Re: How clean is your code by Vautrin (Hermit) on Feb 13, 2004 at 22:20 UTC
I'm involved in a search and rescue team. Is it OK for me to ridicule someone who is lost and I'm out in the woods looking for? A good friend of mine is a paramedic, and if I ever go to the bar with her and her paramedic buddies they sit around the table / bar making fun of patients. So far as I know, they never actually make fun of anyone to their face, but it's a way of relieving stress from their job. This is where I think it gets to a gray area. No, they shouldn't make fun of people on the job. But if that's a defense mechanism, and they are only human, isn't it forgiveable? (Not that it isn't interesting listening to the stories about old men who shoot themselves in the foot cleaning a loaded gun) Want to support the EFF and FSF by buying cool stuff? Click here.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: How clean is your code by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Feb 14, 2004 at 06:14 UTC
Doctors used to take the Hippocratic Oath. They don't any more, and neither do your friends. That's one reason neither are trusted. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: How clean is your code by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 14, 2004 at 19:50 UTC
You really think that the classic oath would improve things? Let's see. You can't give most drugs. (They are deadly. Hopefully not in the quantities prescribed but...) You cannot perform abortion. You can't perform surgery. You swear to support your teacher financially. Nepotism is built right into the oath. Do you think that most people in the modern world are clamouring for these changes?	[reply]