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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:24:52 +1100
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Subject: Re: [MiNT] XaAES crash errors
From: Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Henk Robbers <h.robbers@chello.nl> wrote:
> Paul Wratt wrote:
>>
>> First, thank you ALL for your replys
>
>> ALSO, the question that was related to *, **, an &, my current
>> solution is to NOT use intermediate functions. This just meeans "code
>> double ups" for certain functions which was my greater concern (other
>> people reading the code, and extra binary space taken), but I can look
>> at that later on, when I do "have more experience". It is possible
>> that what I have will work, but I was concerned that it may have
>> contributed to the "inital crash".
>
> I forgot to mention another cause of grand software disasters.
> Code duplication. Or what I would call "copy paste programming"
> Even if you have the intention to remove the duplication later
> on, it is already too late. The duplication is already there.
> First you have to remember every duplicate you have ever made.
> Which is almost impossible.
> Second some duplcates may have diverged in the mean time and
> cannot be removed anymore. Your progam seems to work, so you leave
> it in the end. Your successors aren't aware of these things
> and wonder why the program behaves unpredictable in what seem
> to be similar circumstances.
>
> --

code duplication: functions that contain code the majority of which is
duplicated.
copy paste programming: name a programmer who hasn't

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