[CS-FSLUG] Random comment on comment

[Aaron Patrick Lehmann]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:21:06PM -0500, Ed Hurst wrote:
> Aaron Patrick Lehmann wrote:
> 
> >>Been reading lots of tech/Linux/Unix stuff lately. If I see one more 
> >>comment that something is "clean" without any definition, I'm going to 
> >>permanenty disregard everthing that writer says. When I shaved my face 
> >>for the sake of Army regulations, that was "clean" but very painful and 
> >>I now refuse to do it. Does that mean "clean" in computing is something 
> >>bad?
> >
> > What particular context are you referring to?
> 
> That would be the point, Aaron. It doesn't matter what the context is; 
> the term is used all the time, in all sorts of contexts. Yet I don't 
> recall ever seeing it defined. It has become in my mind a stupid 
> buzz-word that means almost anything the write wants. Is a flat desert 
> clean? Are snow-capped mountains clean? How about the wind-swept tundra 
> of my home state of Alaska?
> 
> And what makes an interface "clean"? Or a particular application, or a 
> piece of hardware, or... you get the idea.

Sort of like the various smells of code in the Refactoring book...  I'm not
quite sure what it is that makes code smelly, but some code is definitely
smelly.

Aaron Lehmann
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