Re: Curious questions...

[Gary Warner <gar () askgar com>]

OK, Kowsik, I'll play . . .

Yes, I have contributed to code systems with more than 1 million lines 
of code.

All of my code was perfect.  (because this is FUNsec, right?)

However, many of the other millions of lines were not.  I was not 
allowed to test that code.  Most of the time, i was not even allowed to 
see the code which would call my code or see the functions that my code 
called.  I could only see the "function interface specs" because of  
"Intellectual Property Concerns."  In a great many circumstances, calls 
made according to the "function interface specs" failed to function.  
This resulted in many many hand-written notes in our printed copy of the 
"function interface specs", which was not allowed to leave the building.

(Most of us assumed that the "Intellectual Property Concerns" were that 
a thorough review of the code would demonstrate a lack of Intellectual 
Property on behalf of the original coders, who wrote spaghetti FORTRAN 
code somewhere in South Africa.  The other concern was that the company 
may not have exactly owned all of the code that we were calling.  My 
tenure with this organization was as a contract programmer, and I ended 
the relationship very quickly.)

For the record, all of my code is STILL perfect, which is why I write so 
little of it.  It helps to increase the value if it is a scarce commodity.

_-_
gar


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