Re: Re: Re: Programming Laws

[scain]

My group now has to spell "deprecated" as "depricated" because when I did the database design, I spelled it wrong, wrote a bunch of code around it, and now it has too much inertia to fix

Scott

[George_Sherston]

A relatively harmless infraction compared to the guy who misspelt "referrer" as "referer" (as in $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'})

§ George Sherston

[Juerd]

.oO( find | xargs perl -i -pe's/depricated/deprecated/g' )
(update: stefp correctly said /g was a good idea)

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

[stefp]

There is a loophole (sic). you probably meant:

<ctt>find | xargs perl -i -pe's/depricated/deprecated/g'

-- stefp -- check out TeXmacs wiki

[scain]

Yes, yes, I know I could do that, but I don't really want to break something that is currently working. That misspelling is spread across MSSQL Server as column headings in various tables, VB script ASPs, C++ applications, and Perl scripts. If I were to try to change it now, it would certainly break something.

[Jenda]

The project I inherited and now spend most of my time with is full of these. And they could not even misspell consistently :-(

Jenda
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
   -- Rick Osborne

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