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[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-11-23 05:07, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> Or any documentation at all.
>
> I recall, with a shudder, how one fine day a high-priority Javascript
> project (high-priority as in, it was due the week before it was given to
> me) was dumped on my lap, consisting of a non-trivial class hierarchy
> and bunch of modules of at least 3-4 layers of abstraction, with
> absolutely no documentation whatsoever. No design docs, no code
> comments, nothing. It was "read the code, pray you'll understand it all
> in 3 days, implement the new features of questionable feasibility, and
> hope it doesn't break". Some of the code involved 4-5 levels of nested
> closures accessing badly-named global variables. You can imagine the
> hilarity that ensues when the guy who wrote the mess leaves and a new
> person comes in having no idea what the code is supposed to do.

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/Jacob Carlborg