1000 lines of C a week?

[Greg Franks]

In article <7800012 at gistdev> flint at gistdev.UUCP writes:
>...I have seen programmers
>with a "we need something like this routine in 10 places, but it has to
>be slightly different in each, so we'll copy it into all 10 places and modify
>one line" mentality that really crank code out.

At a former employer, we called the same sort of operation "case and
paste".  Eg.  "Well, this new feature is almost the same as all of the
others but does this thing a little differently.  No problem..."
<select> move <cut> move <paste>...  and add a new case selector.  No
wonder our embedded applications kept running out of memory. *sigh*

>...  Give me the guy who knows
>enough to add a parameter to the routine anyday. 
> 

I'll second that.

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