[Coco] scary old code

[Bob Devries]

hehehe,

Willard, wait 'til someone points out a bug in your carefully crafted programme 15 years after it was written, and then find that you subscribed to the idea "if it was hard to write, it should be hard to read" (regarding the comments in the source) ;)

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Willard Goosey 
  To: coco at maltedmedia.com 
  Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:28 AM
  Subject: [Coco] scary old code


  Ouch!

  Last night I stumbled across a BASIC game I wrote when I was in the
  8th grade.  "Bad" doesn't even begin to describe it!

  People who have no musical ability at all (that's me BTW) should NOT
  be allowed to use the SOUND statement! :-)  SOUND 255,255 is just
  plain painful!

  Not quite so painful, but still bad, is the BASIC database manager (it
  wanted to look like dBaseIII+) I wrote in '90.  That's actually mostly
  OK at the code level, except for handling conditionals on the
  reports.  I didn't understand what I was doing at all, and that
  clearly shows in the code.

  Then there's the extensive hacks I did to some of the Sample Programs,
  mainly "Print or Revise" and "Color Doodle".  But at least those
  aren't entirely my fault!

  Willard
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  Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
  Socorro, New Mexico, USA
  I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night.
    -- R.E. Howard

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