[Sussex] Code-writing methods

[Nic James Ferrier]

Geoff Teale <gteale at cmedresearch.com> writes:

> Ah, Gosmacs... also famous for it's sale to a proprietary software company and 
> resulting legal issues surrounding that sale which led RMS to develop the 
> Emacs Public License - the first legal step on the road to the GPL.

Which results, this week, in the GPLing of James Gosling's most famous
program.

I bet rms was really laughing when he came off stage.



> I work these days in various combinations of Python, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, BASH, 
> Javascript and C.  The example in my head right now is the import order of 
> UNO modules into python when trying to script openoffice.   If early version 
> of pyUno if you import the modules in the wrong order the program would 
> crash.   Unfortunately that order was not alphabetical (which broke Cmed's 
> in-house coding style) and I had to comment that because I knew that there 
> was at least one person who would see the CVS check-in and instantly go and 
> fix the coding style issue without properly testing.

That's another rule of mine - you should never fix coding style in
source control.

Shout at people about it by all means... but don't fix it.

-- 
Nic Ferrier
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