On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Brian Baquiran wrote: > A good example of a project with good developer documentation and source: > PostgreSQL. > A good example of a project with bad source code: qmail. Thankfully not everyone > codes like DJB. > (I'm interested in what others consider good and bad examples).
My vote goes to the one and the only: sendmail > BTW, while we're discussing professionalism and documentation, I'd just like to > thank Bong Munoz if he's still on the list. Back when I was starting out on a > project Bong had worked on (with Doc Mana and some other ex-Pluggers), I found > one of his notebooks. I probably learned more from Bong's project notes than > from any single CS class in college. > > Thanks, Bong. Yeah Bong has mentored many of us, yours truly included. Ironically, the best book i've read so far about good programming style is 'Writing SOLID Code, by Steve Maguire. Good follow ups to this would be 'Code Complete' (both of which are printed by ... Microsoft Press!) and Design Patterns. All of which Bong has introduced me to. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
