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• What's Wrong With The Way Things Are Done?

  Yes, and it works. In 1987, I worked in a mostly Unix shop that incorporated most of these procedures. Project documentation and notes, with some discussion were aided by local netnews grou...

• /* You Are Expected to Understand This */

  Re: Harmful comments? Well, I don't think there's any possible way that a comment could be "harmful" Unterminated comments have, on occasion, resulted in code that compiled, but di...

• /* You Are Expected to Understand This */

  Re: NASA and the Space Shuttle flight programs Apparently each line of the space shuttles flight program has something like a full page of documentation. Every bit of real code has an ex...

• Application Directories

  Install schemes I use I use the /usr/local tree as a place to install new system stuff that I'll restore after a system upgrade. I've changed distributions more than once. The biggest heada...