From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:46:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ae81e0f-d41a-32a4-83d3-0263164d2035@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2212130831350.1473@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 12/12/22 4:34 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> My main job, for the 20 years until I retired, was to keep telling
>> people that code that you wrote 6 months ago might as well have been
>> written by someone else. Optimize for reading the code, not writing the
>> code. It's read many.
>
> I should clarify that on the odd occasion that I write obscure code it's
> for efficiency, and I comment it well because *I* might be the one to
> maintain it six months hence :-)
Six months? Try ten years. :-)
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-12 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-10 19:38 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-11 0:22 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2022-12-11 2:37 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-11 13:59 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-12-11 14:28 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-12-11 15:04 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-13 1:54 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11 17:18 ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-11 18:54 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-12-11 19:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-11 20:03 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11 23:22 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-12 2:15 ` [TUHS] Clever code (was " Bakul Shah
2022-12-12 2:44 ` [TUHS] " Steve Nickolas
2022-12-12 3:09 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-12 3:34 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-12 5:00 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-12-12 5:26 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-12 15:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-12 15:29 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-12 15:39 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-12 16:04 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-12 16:26 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-12 22:20 ` Liam Proven
2022-12-12 23:10 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-12 23:24 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-13 2:00 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-13 13:37 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-13 23:00 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-14 1:05 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-14 1:40 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-14 6:32 ` Rich Morin
2022-12-14 2:01 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-14 7:49 ` arnold
2022-12-14 11:54 ` Brad Spencer
2022-12-14 12:08 ` [TUHS] Re: (TUHS -> COFF?) Re: Clever code Michael Kjörling
2022-12-14 15:14 ` [TUHS] Microware's OS-9 (was: Clever code) G. Branden Robinson
2022-12-14 22:41 ` [TUHS] " John Cowan
2022-12-14 9:46 ` [TUHS] Re: Clever code (was Re: Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives? Harald Arnesen
2022-12-15 18:33 ` Liam Proven
2022-12-16 10:42 ` Harald Arnesen
2022-12-18 14:05 ` Liam Proven
2022-12-18 15:08 ` Stuff Received
2022-12-19 11:47 ` Liam Proven
2022-12-20 8:30 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-20 11:57 ` Liam Proven
2022-12-15 0:29 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-15 2:54 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-15 5:36 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-15 14:02 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-15 14:06 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-15 14:18 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-15 14:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-15 8:01 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-12 9:48 ` [TUHS] Re: Clever code Michael Kjörling
2022-12-12 21:34 ` [TUHS] Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives? Dave Horsfall
2022-12-12 21:46 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2022-12-11 0:42 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2022-12-11 2:16 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11 2:26 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-11 2:32 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11 2:33 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-11 2:39 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11 2:49 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-11 3:10 ` Phil Budne
2022-12-11 4:17 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-11 4:45 ` Will Senn
2022-12-12 17:06 ` Doug McIntyre
2022-12-12 17:42 Nelson H. F. Beebe
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