Re: Open Source == drawn-out flame wars.
"Jeff?Relf" wrote:
I don't know what you think a " developer " is,
Alex_Blekhman,
but I was working with teams of programmers starting in
1982 ( on the Lilith, a Modula-2 engine ).
So, it's quite a pity that for 25 years of programming you
didn't get that technologies develop in order to answer
everyday needs and not because of some evil mastermind.
To remind you, this thread started from the qustion how to
replace hardcoded value in a loop with something more
flexible. There were several suggestions including templates
metaprogramming (which may be very useful for certain tasks,
BTW).
You answered that you "wouldn't touch [such] code with a ten
foot pole" and would use hardcoded constant. Also, I noticed
that you constantly propose similar "solutions" (hardcoded
constants, full paths for include headers, code that relies
on internal representation of a data, etc.) to other
posters.
All this indicates that you write and maintain all of your
code alone (or just don't bother to maintain it). Because if
people listened to you and followed your advices, then their
code would become maintenance nightmare.
Alex