[DUG] Naming your code

[Kyley Harris]

You beat me to it. I agree with most of John's statements about headers
etc. and why you cant trust source control unless you will stick with it
for life on the same system.

But Superb Programmer? Perhaps you meant Intelligent Person? There are
plenty of Geniuses, engineers, mathematicians etc, who all code because
it helps their other jobs. Programming is a role itself, that does not
require skills in all these other areas. A Suberb programmer should in
the least:

Write clean consistent code.
Write self documenting code.
Also write supplementary comments regarding complex self-documenting
code.
Understand the goal, before starting the task. 

A Suberb programmer, does not need to know maths etc. This is all
available in books and specs. A Suberb programmer knows how to take all
the bits and pieces and turn it into maintainable, clean, bug free
software. I am guessing that most Delphi group people are a mixture of
Programmer, Self-manager, etc. Not everyone works corporate. But its
important to distinguish the skill of programming, aside from the skills
of other mixed roles.

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Todd Martin
Sent: Friday, 5 May 2006 3:49 p.m.
To: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Naming your code

I assume you're joking. That's not my idea of 'superb programming'.

> The extreme example was one package where the variables had different
names
> and declarations from one program to another, the programmer concerned
wrote
> not one single comment in his code, and liked naming variables with
names
> like B320 B330 B340 etc.  He was a superb programmer who believed code
> should be read to find what it does, and also liked reading object
files
> directly.....if you are lucky you wouldn't be maintaining his code, it
was
> hard to improve in all senses.
>
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On
> Behalf Of Richard Vowles
> Sent: Friday, 5 May 2006 12:53 p.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: RE: [DUG] Naming your code
>
>
> It should be in the version control check-in anyway so you know who to
> blame. The only reason it isn't in my code is I can't be bothered
putting
it
> there. It is there on templated code.
>
> (a dedicated subversion user).
>
> How about people change subject lines to match what we are talking
about.
> ---
> Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect, Borland New Zealand
> email: richard.vowles at borland.com
> phone: +64-9-9184573
> cell: +64-21-467747
> other: MSN richard.vowles at borland.com, skype: rvowles
> blog: http://www.usergroup.org.nz/blogs/selectBlog.html?id=39769
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
> On Behalf Of Kyley Harris
> Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:42 p.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: RE: [DUG] In case you're interested (or buy stuff)
>
> Correct. Many companies that rely on contractors to fulfill work do
not
want
> temp employess, etc to see a name, and go tell the competition who
they
> should contact for good design work. So in that case it is valid to
request
> unsigned work. If you really want to assert that you wrote something.
Get
a
> reference in writing on letterhead that cannot be disputed by future
> managers, employees etc. Get the letter to state unequivocally what
input
> you had such as design, implementation, delployment. NEVER rely on an
> interviewer calling someone. I make a point of providing no verbal
> references unless that person giving the ref would die for me, or
close :D
>
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