At Macromedia on the QA team for Director and the Lingo programming language, that's exactly what I did for a few hours every day on the Direct-L listserve.
The payback on my time spent there was invaluable. Alex Zavatone Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 19, 2015, at 7:27 AM, Michael David Crawford <[email protected]> > wrote: > > When I was a system software engineer at Apple in the mid-nineties, I > advocated that all of us should do tech support one day per week, so > as to obtain greater insight into the needs of our users. > > That went over like a lead balloon. > >> On 6/19/15, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 19 Jun 2015, at 00:01, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Jun 18, 2015, at 07:08 , Dave <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Have you ever seen a header file with a comment that goes on forever on >>>> one line? >>>> >>>> For example: >>>> >>>> // This is a very long line of text that is >>>> supposed to be telling >>>> me something useful but I can’t see the end of it without scrolling >>>> horizontally because the developer couldn’t be bother to insert line >>>> returns, all I can say is that they must have gigantic screen to be able >>>> to make sense of it! >>>> >>>> Is there a utility I can run that would reformat it so all comment lines >>>> are a sensible width? >>> >>> Virtually all of Apple's files are like this. I don't like turning on wrap >>> except in readme files (because I hate it when lines of code are wrapped). >> >> Me too, if they changed it so the switch was actually in the Window rather >> than in preferences it would help. >> >>> I do wish Xcode would support reformatting comment blocks natively. Filing >>> a bug report, you should, too… >> >> Yes, that would be a really good feature. >> >> Cheers >> Dave >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/mdcrawford%40gmail.com >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > > > -- > Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer > [email protected] > http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ > > Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan > Area. > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
