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- From: hshubs@cis.umassd.edu (Howard S Shubs)
- Subject: Poor programming (was: Block Data is evil)
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- References: <1993Jan21.074755.14939@arcetri.astro.it> <1993Jan22.183106.15813@newshost.lanl.gov> <C1AMpC.BAt@umassd.edu> <1993Jan23.151052.6593@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:15:58 GMT
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- In <1993Jan23.151052.6593@hubcap.clemson.edu> jtbell@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jon Bell) writes:
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- >In article <C1AMpC.BAt@umassd.edu> hshubs@cis.umassd.edu (Howard S Shubs) writes:
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- [poor method for doing memory management from FORTRAN deleted to prevent
- its spread]
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- >>You're not seriously suggesting that this be used in production code,
- >>are you? If you are, is this intended as job security?
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- >It's already been done. When I was a grad student in experimental
- >particle physics, I worked with CERN's HYDRA library, which implemented
- >dynamic memory allocation in FORTRAN using the same basic idea. I
- >think this package is still widely used in particle physics.
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- That's meaningless. Just because something has been done poorly is not
- a reason to continue to do it poorly. Someone has to maintain that code.
- --
- Howard S Shubs hshubs@bix.com For to win 100 victories in 100
- The Denim Adept hshubs@cis.umassd.edu battles is not the acme of skill.
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