Coding Off Days!!!

[Fishface]

well PL/SQL is not real code anyway (like to think of it as Pseudo code), and it is easy to read by most

It is read by most and understood by few

[SandyDown]

Right - I'm just going to follow you round the board slapping you now

Do you normally get violent with anyone who has a different opinion than you? anyway you are bigger than I hence don't really want to get into a physical fight with you - so pick on someone your own size

[SallyAnne]

Do you normally get violent with anyone who has a different opinion than you? anyway you are bigger than I hence don't really want to get into a physical fight with you - so pick on someone your own size

Ah I've been full of hell all day today - it was DIM's fault for saying I was a code hacker.

[DimPrawn]

Moi?

Surely not. I am not known for winding people up. People on here love me.

[OrangeHopper]

You show me your code and I'll show you mine.

[DaveB]

You show me your code and I'll show you mine.

10 print "Hello World"
20 goto 10

[DimPrawn]

@P=split//,".URRUU\c8R";@d=split//,"\nrekcah xinU / lreP rehtona tsuJ";sub p{
@p{"r$p","u$p"}=(P,P);pipe"r$p","u$p";++$p;($q*=2)+=$f=!fork;map{$P=$P[$f^ord
($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/ ^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;p;p;p;p;map{$p{$_}=~/^[P.]/&&
close$_}%p;wait until$?;map{/^r/&&<$_>}%p;$_=$d[$q];sleep rand(2)if/\S/;print 

[Diestl]

Your code has to:

1. Meet stringent coding guidelines covering best practices, naming, etc.
2. Be well commented, structured, etc
3. Avoid common mistakes for issues such as memory management, threading and deadlocks, inefficient algorithms, deprecated API calls, etc

How do we know any of this is acceptable to a build without it being reviewed?

You guys are straight out of the nut house I'm sure.

I used to work with a guy as anal as that, his code looked good but it took him 10x as long to write it compared to those of us who just got the thing written. His code always ran slower as he done everything by the book, not using initiative or clever coding. He managed to bring in standards but I ignored it all and was still regarded as by far the best developer.

[DimPrawn]

The true cost of code is the support and enhancement.

Unmaintable "write only" code might make you feel big and clever, but it costs companies a fortune when you have left.

The simplest code is the code that costs a company the least money.

[OrangeHopper]

... The true cost of code is the support and enhancement ...

Ah, a true word at last.