Re: Hooks

Brandon Van Every <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.sweng
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Mat Noguchi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Brandon, I'm not really sure why you are reacting so strongly to what Richard said about insulation being obnoxious,

because I don't believe you can solve everybody's future problems, or
should.  This thread is mostly framing a non-goal.

> or to the idea in general of trying to improve your skills with respect to long-term programming.

An a-priori regimen for writing code, handed off to someone else years
later, without any kind of testing or benchmarking of the efficacy of
the regimen, is merely a religion.  You can say, "hiding variables
Bad, exposing variables Good" all you want.  How are you going to
prove that it saves labor many years down the line?  I guess as
programmers on a mailing list we usually rely on anecdotes, since
we're not omniscient enough to observe a large enough sample of
projects, or all the factors affecting a project.  I am saying,
concentrate on the Big Picture issues, and don't sweat the little
things.  You can't prevent people being treated like a code monkey
sometime in the future.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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