Now I see why it's a bear to maintain....

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Post #198,195 by gdaustin 3/12/05 11:06:12 AM Reply	Now I see why it's a bear to maintain.... Hardcoded values in programs.
Post #198,199 by broomberg 3/12/05 11:55:47 AM Reply	Now??? Does that mean you've been coding stuff like that, just not quite as bad?
Post #198,201 by gdaustin 3/12/05 12:11:41 PM Reply	No.. I stopped coding like that 10 years ago.... when I had to maintain someone's crap that was written like that. But you're right, you have to go through it carefully, analyzing all the pieces and figuring out what you can "safely" extract. It takes months (or years if it's big). But the last time I did one like that was 1997, before Internet time.

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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