Re: "pretty Oracle SQL" utility

Hans Forbrich wrote:

> <snipped>
> 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

Amen!

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