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[Regan Heath]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:41:08 -0000, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Example, this post is not threaded correctly for me in Thunderbird.

Nor for me (Opera 12.11 Win32 Windows7).


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