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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation? Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:12:17 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 70 Message-ID: References: <4qtg1lx7ms.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <422i1lxd1l.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <3urp1lxv75.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 03:12:18 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="29885b941dd035e97fa26ef25062c9e6"; logging-data="1427648"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/RNM38WQJzXG20CisTQAVG" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:J+95tpWsRtsw/FQ9nz6Rlb6AfRM= Bytes: 4067 On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:30:59 +0100, "Carlos E.R." wrote: >On 2024-11-29 16:21, john larkin wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:42:59 -0700, Don Y >> wrote: >> >>> On 11/28/2024 6:49 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>>> Do *you* "write for yourself" or "write for others"? >>>>> >>>>> I.e., do you write assuming YOU are the Reader?  Or, that >>>>> OTHERS will be the Reader? >>>>> >>>>> [There seems to be a split on how developers write; I think >>>>> this would affect their choice of (spoken) languages as well.] >>>> >>>> Ah. If I write a script I tend to mix English and Spanish. I tend to use >>>> English thinking of sharing the script or asking questions about it. The places >>>> where I do that are English speaking mostly. >>> >>> I always write for others -- as, if I have to revisit the code >>> a year or five hence, *I* will effectively BE one of those >>> "others". >> >> Some guy wrote a c program that strips comments from c programs. His >> reasoning is that the code speaks for itself, and the comments are >> always wrong. > >Ridiculous. > >> >> I assume that program was not commented. >> >> >> I saw a bit of actual Windows source code, and it had a mandatory, >> standard comment section at the start of any block of code. It said >> >> */ >> Author: Jim Smith >> Date: 2018 >> Purpose: what it says >> /* > > >My first job was as programmer for small company. They had tasked an >external programmer with creating a software for them with LabWindows. >This thing creates displays; think a virtual oscilloscope display, for >instance, measuring things like temperature, pressure, rpm, etc. My boss >says "I want you to add a voltage display". Simple. > >Well, the original programmer had removed the header file that assigned >labels to both the display windows and the code. The code would say >"display_crt(31, A1)", where 31 was the element in the display to >display rpm, for instance. If I inserted "voltage" in the display >window, all the numbers shifted by one, so that 31 became pressure, for >instance. > >The programmer had sabotaged the code so that no one could touch it by >replacing labels with their values. > >It took me months to recreate the header file with labels. My boss >thought I was useless: it is difficult to explain this to a non programmer. > >I carefully documented since then every program I wrote. I did not want >any other person to suffer what I did. I worked with (with not for, briefly!) a company that had an engineer make one thing work somehow and then sent it to manufacturing and told them to make copies. No drawings, no schematics.