I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... ;-) (was Re: age of Python programmers)
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Wed Sep 1 12:06:03 EDT 2004
Christopher T King wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Peter Hansen wrote:
>>Andrea Griffini wrote:
>>>I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... ;-)
>>How many could post stories of companies without
>>any form of revision control, except perhaps those
>>printouts in Winnifred's bottom drawer from last year?
>
> I certainly could.
>
>>Or people who resorted to print statements during
>
> Hey, print statements are a perfectly valid form of debugging! :)
For the record, I agree and have used them in many instances, but
in the full context of what I wrote they were clearly inappropriate.
-Peter
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