Re: "pretty Oracle SQL" utility

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Karsten Farrell wrote:

> I agree. While I have often wished that those developers who preceded me
> had learned to write clear, human understandable code ... well, alas!
> ... in the real world, I often had to slog thru the muddy waters of
> someone's spaghetti code to find where I needed to make a change. Even
> COBOL, proclaimed by its developers as a self-documenting language, in
> the hands of a haphazard thinker became sheer torture to modify.
>
> If all developers were organized, then there wouldn't be a market for
> these beautifiers ... and apps written in object-oriented languages
> would be composed of simple, clearly defined modules or classes that
> could be folded together into a seamless, full application. And pigs
> would fly.
> --
> /Karsten
> DBA > retired > DBA

Based on an informal review of all the developers I've led and/or worked with over the past 20 years

... those who have the discipline to beautify their own code by hand, generally also have the discipline to do exception-handling, look for and enforce boundary conditions, and generally keep their code tight and low maintenance.

... flip side - spaghetti discipline yields spaghetti code

Just an observation.
/Hans Received on Wed May 14 2003 - 18:17:29 CDT