re: #105 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s a curse of the digital world: programs written without enough documentation.

I always hated when I looked at a contractor’s code and each line was not commented liberally.

If I could have I would have required in the contracts that not one line of executable code was written until the entire program design was put into comments in the project software first.

And C coding (and its descendants) are the worst, as the gestalt of C and programmers who live in it like to use the most opaque variable and function names.

Ada died a hard death, but it was intended to help solve project management problems.

I was a contractor for almost my entire career, and I developed a habit of voluminous documenting of all the code I created. Especially during the late 1980’s when Y2K was just around the corner, and I was compelled to write code for BASF to “convert” 2-digit year fields by bit-flipping. Good times.

Nothing would have happened, just dates would get messed up, but everyone was freaked out by the Bhopal disaster. Yeah that would have sucked since BASF had all those chemicals stored on campus, but it did not happen on my watch.