Taryn East wrote:
What FOSS projects (or parts therof) do you know that have really great code in them? The kind of excellent code that a person with reasonable but not brilliant skills could read/study and learn nifty things from?
Samba. It's in C, it solves a non-trivial problem in such a way that it reveals that the real problem is actually something deeper. It's perhaps not the best code to study since SMB is such an awful protocol, and a lot of the code is dealing with that awfulness. But even that is imformative, such as the SMB protocol compiler, which exists because the SMB protocol format is complexity built upon stupidity. Samba is also good because it leverages a lot of the programming support tools (Doxygen, Subversion, etc). Worst code of all time would be IRRToolSet, partly because it was written in C++ many years ago, and C++ has been a moving target of a language. Apache. Simple problem, simple code. Nice mainline. Some ugly modules though. ISC DHCP. Not so much because of the code but because it highlights the real-world issues that even simple network servers need to handle. Cheers, Glen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
