The *ART* of Computer Programming

George Seibel seibel at cgl.ucsf.edu
Sun Mar 4 05:45:35 AEST 1990


In article <12533 at nigel.udel.EDU> new at udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>In article <25eb63c7.6a42 at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
>>If a program is worth >writing it is worth writing well.  
>Have you never heard of a one-time program? Or were you not referring to
>this kind of program?     -- Darren

Sure, as long as you're willing to delete the source and executable as
soon as the job is done.   If you aren't willing to do that, then it
by definition isn't a one-shot deal.    One-shot hacks have a way of
turning into bigger and bigger hacks...

George Seibel, UCSF
seibel at cgl.ucsf.edu



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