Archive: March, 2007

Use the Force, Read the Source

Have you ever had half a million lines of unreadable Java dumped on your desk with a request for “just a few small changes”? How did you feel when you realized there was hardly a comment to be found?

In such moments the eternal questions of the meaning of life rush to your mind. One of them is “What is the real purpose of source code?” Think a second before you continue. Continue »