MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: Dirty Coding Tricks

> http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4111/dirty_coding_tricks.php

I was just going through some old articles and found this article and read it again. A really great read.

One company I used to work for had a guy I nicknamed "The Butcher" because he was so prone to taking beautiful, well designed code and adding nasty hacks to it (and without commenting them as hacks). He didn't mind me calling him this, in fact, he seemed to like it. Pretty soon, he started calling himself the "The Butcher" and the whole Dev team joined in as well. A nice guy, but he needed to stop for a few minutes and think of the best way to achieve something before diving in to coding nasty hacks.

In the comments below the above article, I especially love this comment:

The engine team at Gremlin used to keep a single glove in their office. When someone asked where it was, it was because they were about to type some really dirty code. It wasn't so much a case of not wanting to leave fingerprints as of not wanting to actually touch the dirtiest fixes.

I'm pretty sure The Butcher sure would have appreciated this as well, if we had a similar glove at our company back then ... We might as well have hung the glove near his desk, because he sure would be getting the most use out of it.

Moose