From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:24:04 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised In-Reply-To: <20180321173403.GD9739@mcvoy.com> References: <20180321141753.25C4418C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <6c6699c0-15db-604a-181c-7dad282599e1@kilonet.net> <20180321173403.GD9739@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 21 Mar 2018, Larry McVoy wrote: > Yep. Someone once told me "any code that you wrote more than 6 months > ago might as well have been written by someone else. So write it in a > way that you can debug it". Yep, and I'm glad that I had bosses to whom I didn't have to explain why my comments were so voluminous. And who first said "Write your code as though the next person to maintain it is a psychotic axe-wielding murderer who knows where you live"? I've often thought that way (as the murderer I mean, not the murderee). I'd name names, but he might be on this list... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."