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by tuberculosis
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3/2/05 1:07:09 AM
8/21/07 5:44:44 AM
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New Been there
Only it was ancient Fortran - computed goto's - oh yeah.

I ended up wallpapering my office and most of a hallway with the listing and using hilighters to draw call chains. The original author used the copy and paste method of reuse so I did aggressive refactoring, eliminating about a third of the code and then applied my modifications to some well chosen bottlenecks.

Lots o' luck with that.


"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"   --Mark Twain

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."   --Albert Einstein

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Post #196,978
by static
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3/3/05 1:34:19 AM
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New I did that once.
It was *extremely* cut-n-paste. The proggy was not that hard - it loaded crypto keys into a pinpad so it merely did a dozen or so send data, receive data cycles. Thing was, one cycle was 15 lines of Fortran. And that was cut-n-pasted everywhere it was needed.... *NGNHG*

After I rewrote it in C on a PC, the development guy who got to maintain it discovered he didn't know C anywhere near as well as he thought he did. Pointers to functions? Arrays of structures? Finite state machines? It was all new to him.

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
 
Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.
     I've recently signed up for a deathmarch. - (broomberg) - (27) - March 1, 2005, 10:39:53 PM EST
         Luck! I think you'll need it. :-( -NT - (Another Scott) - March 1, 2005, 10:46:46 PM EST
         reverse engineer - (boxley) - (1) - March 1, 2005, 10:49:55 PM EST
             HEHEHEH - (broomberg) - March 1, 2005, 11:05:12 PM EST
         I know you like pain - (ben_tilly) - March 1, 2005, 11:09:21 PM EST
         Been there - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:44:44 AM EDT
             I did that once. - (static) - March 3, 2005, 01:34:19 AM EST
         volunteered for this? - (cforde) - (1) - March 2, 2005, 02:57:56 AM EST
             Not exactly - (broomberg) - March 2, 2005, 06:43:12 AM EST
         Parse Error - (pwhysall) - (1) - March 2, 2005, 03:43:03 AM EST
             Deathmatch? - (broomberg) - March 2, 2005, 06:32:27 AM EST
         Oh, man. - (imric) - (8) - March 2, 2005, 06:56:50 AM EST
             No it wasn't. - (broomberg) - (7) - March 2, 2005, 06:45:05 PM EST
                 Again, I hate COBOL. -NT - (imric) - (2) - March 2, 2005, 06:51:39 PM EST
                     Oh, that's not COBOL. I can write that kind of code in Java. - (Arkadiy) - (1) - March 3, 2005, 09:33:43 AM EST
                         That KIND of code, sure. - (imric) - March 3, 2005, 09:49:49 AM EST
                 That looks like some of my QuickBASIC code. :-/ -NT - (Another Scott) - March 3, 2005, 09:37:31 AM EST
                 Now I see why it's a bear to maintain.... - (gdaustin) - (2) - March 12, 2005, 11:06:12 AM EST
                     Now??? - (broomberg) - (1) - March 12, 2005, 11:55:47 AM EST
                         No.. I stopped coding like that 10 years ago.... - (gdaustin) - March 12, 2005, 12:11:41 PM EST
         Need some help? - (jbrabeck) - (7) - March 3, 2005, 07:20:58 AM EST
             *Can* never be, or *hopefully* will never be? - (drewk) - (5) - March 3, 2005, 11:51:28 AM EST
                 I'll keep it simple - (jbrabeck) - (4) - March 3, 2005, 05:10:42 PM EST
                     bbb ... b ... b .. bb ... bbbbb ... - (drewk) - (2) - March 3, 2005, 12:26:26 PM EST
                         It is like this: - (folkert) - March 3, 2005, 01:04:40 PM EST
                         That's plural... Miracles. Greg got it in his post. -NT - (jbrabeck) - March 3, 2005, 05:11:39 PM EST
                     Send an email to the admin - (broomberg) - March 3, 2005, 06:21:51 PM EST
             Disaster Recovery - (gdaustin) - March 12, 2005, 12:07:57 PM EST

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