Re: 6502 Programming Is Not Interested?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <bqBZa.82211$It4.41956@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>,
desiv <desiv@attbi.com> wrote:
 
>> I agree that there are bad programmers *now*...and I agree that
>> there were bad programmers *then*. I have seen some awful COBOL
>> code..."back in the day" it was easier to get away with sloppy
>> programming because *no* one but the programmers understood what
>> the computer did.
> 
> I agree with most of that, but as far as the above...
> 
> That reason is the same today as it was then.  No one but the programmers
> knows what the computer did.
> Hasn't changed..
 
Sure it has changed!  Today, not even the programmers (most of them) know
what the computer really is doing..... there's just too much software
between the programmer and the "bare metal".  Some years ago, in an
article in the "C/C++ User's Journal" (www.cuj.com) P.J. Plaugher
complained about this: he had just installed Win-NT om one of his
computers, and for the first time in his life, he felt he didn't understand
everything which was happening on that computer....
 
> If anything, it's worse now, because it's easier to make a bad program LOOK
> good now.  So those few people that didn't understand,  (You know them..
> Managers.. :-)  before they might recognize an ugly program as bad.  Now,
> it's got windows and clicky things and pictures and animated pointers, so it
> must be good!!!
> 
> I still stand by it.  There are more bad programmers today..
 
Well, since there are many more programmers in general today, you're
definitely right!  :-)
 
> desiv
> 
> Hey, wouldn't it be neat if there was a VB (or VC or whatever language)
> plugin that rated code looking for certain BAD programming principles and
> emailed it out as a report???  :-)
 
Only a Bad Programmer would attempt to write such a program in VB... :-)
 
Btw VC isn't a programming language, but an implementation of a programming
language.  I hope you know the difference....
 
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