[ale] sloppy coding in breath tester

[Jim Kinney]

HEY!! I _WRITE_ weird code. :-)  I am convinced my lack of elegance is
made up for fully in my brute force algorithms I reinvent for every
project. :-}

Weird code is fine as long as the output and process is valid
mathmaticaly and/or scientifically and/or lexicographicaly.

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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