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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!cliffs.rs.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Freedom Desktop -- port? Date: 23 Dec 1996 18:02:40 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <59mhg0$lus@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <59kvau$rsi@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.160 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32935 comp.unix.programmer:47978 In article <59kvau$rsi@uuneo.neosoft.com>, conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes: Just wanted to add an additional $.02 worth here: First of all, I forgot to mention that this is a demo of a commercial package (and not a cheap one, either!). With that in mind, I just have to say that I'm quite flabbergasted at the downright *sloppiness* of the coding. Even in modules that I *have* managed to compile, the number of warnings was astounding: *lots* of incompatible pointer usages, invalid assignments, incompatible function parameters, using *keywords* as the name of a variable (volatile), empty and/or unused declarations, incorrect numer of function arguments...the list goes on and on. The Makefile is an absolute joke as well. Minimal specification of flags, libs, includes -- not even the *basics*. I can only imagine how chagrined I would be if I had actually *paid* for this thing! Christ, if you can get away with coding like this in a commercial product, even *I* could become a professional programmer! :-) There, I feel better now. -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |