XPost: alt.lang.basic   
   From: msmcdoug@no.spam.iinet   
      
   rhnlogic@yahoo.com wrote:   
      
   >>Not meaning to be disrespectful, or even rude, but since I'm a software   
   >>developer by trade I take special exception to this: :)   
   >>   
   >>10 FORI=1TO10   
   >>   
   >>That is just evil.  Whoever is so lazy as to do this deserves whatever   
   >>comes to them!  How hard is it to press a space bar?  Why does pressing   
   >>the space bar even require knowing anything about how to type?  Whoever   
   >>the crazy programmer was that made Tandy BASIC accept such code should   
   >>be hog-tied!   
      
   Hey, at least you didn't have to worry much about protecting your IP back   
   then! Spaghetti BASIC and assembler meant that even people *with* your   
   source couldn't follow what/how the code worked! ;)   
      
   Sadly, I've seen code written in the last few years in C/C++ that isn't much   
   better - and I've had to maintain it! :O Just goes to show that a bad   
   programmer can *still* churn out unmaintainable code if they really try!   
      
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