Docstrings considered too complicated

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Mar 2 16:22:40 EST 2010


Andreas Waldenburger <usenot at geekmail.INVALID> writes:

> Don't get me wrong; our whole system is more fragile than I find
> comfortable. But I guess getting 10ish different parties around the
> globe to work in complete unison is quite a feat, and I'm surprised it
> even works as it is. But it does, and I'm glad we don't have to
> micromanage other people's code.

It's rather odd that you think of “require general quality standards,
independently measurable and testable” to be “micromanaging”.

I guess that when even the *customers* will resist implementing such
quality expectations, it's little surprise that the vendors continue to
push out such shoddy work on their customers.

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Ben Finney



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