[ale] sloppy coding in breath tester

[Pete Hardie]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:16, tom <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 May 2009, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I only scanned the link, so ...
>
> There is another possiblity - the authors were never CS trained at all.
> I'd guess that many of the people writing code for the breathalyzer were
> originally engineers or scientists with a dominant background in
> instrumentation. Coding would have been pickup activity which started
> taking over their lives like kudzu. Hence sloppy code due to a lack of
> background.

This is a strong candidate.  I've seen some truly weird working code from
EEs who moved into coding with just one FORTRAN class as background.

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