software engineering foundations?

[Fredrik Lundh]

skip at pobox.com wrote:

> In my work I have from time-to-time had to pick up and maintain
> scripts (generally shell/Python stuff) which non-professional programmers
> have written.  It's never what you would call a "pleasant" task.

And yes, for the specific art of writing code that others might have to 
read, see this short essay:

    http://www.perforce.com/perforce/papers/prettycode.html

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