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From: pardoej@lonnds.ml.com (Julian Pardoe LADS LDN X1428)
Subject: Re: Coders Aren't Carpenters
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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:08:51 GMT
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In article <4ugajo$hek@news.onramp.net>, dekorte@suite.com (Steve Dekorte) writes:
-->Tim Ottinger wrote:
-->> ..Two programmers, given the
-->> same design, and plenty of time to get it right and readable, and the same
-->> OS, run-time environment, language, etc., and they'll probably produce code
-->> "just like you would have done it'.
-->
-->My experience tells me otherwise.
-->

So does mine!  Sometimes it's "I wish I had thought of that" and sometimes
"If I was trying my hardest to think of an obscure way of coding this I
could never had dreamed up this way"!

-- jP --


