Comments on: Please Don’t Share Your Bodily Fluids With the Rest of the System http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2006/08/11/please-dont-share-your-bodily-fluids-with-the-rest-of-the-system Stories of a Self-published, Entrepreneurial Fiction Author (and Software Guy) Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:22:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: J. Timothy King http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2006/08/11/please-dont-share-your-bodily-fluids-with-the-rest-of-the-system#comment-7990 J. Timothy King Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:57:42 +0000 http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2006/08/11/please-dont-share-your-bodily-fluids-with-the-rest-of-the-system#comment-7990 Harvey, thanks. Dave, OAOO. :-) -TimK Harvey, thanks.

Dave, OAOO. :-)

-TimK

]]> By: Dave Nicolette http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2006/08/11/please-dont-share-your-bodily-fluids-with-the-rest-of-the-system#comment-7986 Dave Nicolette Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:42:15 +0000 http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2006/08/11/please-dont-share-your-bodily-fluids-with-the-rest-of-the-system#comment-7986 In the comment, you wrote "whole entire system." That's redundant, and makes the mass of snot bigger. I suggest "whole system" or "entire system", but not "whole entire system." ;-) In the comment, you wrote “whole entire system.” That’s redundant, and makes the mass of snot bigger. I suggest “whole system” or “entire system”, but not “whole entire system.”

;-)

]]> By: Harvey Sugar http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2006/08/11/please-dont-share-your-bodily-fluids-with-the-rest-of-the-system#comment-7952 Harvey Sugar Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:25:11 +0000 http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2006/08/11/please-dont-share-your-bodily-fluids-with-the-rest-of-the-system#comment-7952 Yes, I've seen this kind of thing. I usually regain my composure and edit the comment before I finally check in the code. Recently I saw a similar situation where all kinds of unrelated data was put in an object as private with get and set functions for each item. What's the point of that? Did the programmer think that it was now "object oriented"? But avoiding things like this actually requires some up front design and planning before diving into coding. And that issue has been a problem for the 30 years I've been in this business. Happy refactoring! Yes, I’ve seen this kind of thing. I usually regain my composure and edit the comment before I finally check in the code.

Recently I saw a similar situation where all kinds of unrelated data was put in an object as private with get and set functions for each item. What’s the point of that? Did the programmer think that it was now “object oriented”?

But avoiding things like this actually requires some up front design and planning before diving into coding. And that issue has been a problem for the 30 years I’ve been in this business.

Happy refactoring!

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