On 2012-11-23 05:07, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Or any documentation at all.
I recall, with a shudder, how one fine day a high-priority Javascript
project (high-priority as in, it was due the week before it was given to
me) was dumped on my lap, consisting of a non-trivial class hierarchy
and bunch of modules of at least 3-4 layers of abstraction, with
absolutely no documentation whatsoever. No design docs, no code
comments, nothing. It was "read the code, pray you'll understand it all
in 3 days, implement the new features of questionable feasibility, and
hope it doesn't break". Some of the code involved 4-5 levels of nested
closures accessing badly-named global variables. You can imagine the
hilarity that ensues when the guy who wrote the mess leaves and a new
person comes in having no idea what the code is supposed to do.
Example, this post is not threaded correctly for me in Thunderbird.
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/Jacob Carlborg
