On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 03:24:07 -0500 (EST)
"John S. Dyson" <dy...@iquest.net> wrote:
> > I don't want to be a pest, because this really shouldn't be on an
> > open forum. But John: I would ask you questions and the answers I
> > would get would be in the form: "Nobody understands that
> > code but me, don't touch what you don't understand", or "The algorithm
> > is obvious from the code". This in regards to non-compartmentalized
> > algorithms strewn across half a dozen source files which are almost
> > universally lacking in comments of any substance.
> The frustration that I was showing was a result of off the wall assertions
> being made, with few coherent questions. Your questions are often
> analogous to someone saying that the VM code sucks, but will you help me
> with it, by teaching it to me? Oh, by the way, I haven't read the docs
> that you asked me to... :-). Hows about the frustration of being asked
> to review code "corrections" (or even seeing commits) that show a confusion
> that would have been cleared up if the docs were read, and then time was
> spent to ask questions that are backed with some initial understanding?
I dunno, John. Matt's right on the ball here, from my experience. Vague
non-answers seem to be your specialty.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thor...@nas.nasa.gov>
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