You can't stumble if you're not in motionRichard P. Carlton 3M
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It would be nice if more of the mainstream programming IDEs gave notices to programmers when their programs look....less than decent. It would go beyond the typical checking whether the code gives errors and give the programmer floating notes when they compile about their source design. This would help enforce good programming practice, as opposed to the "I just write stuff until it compiles with 0 errors" type of attitude. It may affect people enough that they even become better programmers in the meanwhile. If not a part of the IDE itself, perhaps it could be an external application that would read the source and check for design flaws and such within the program.
I thought of this idea when I was...
revising some source codes written by my colleagues. It sure would've been nice if something would've told them "this stuff is nasty!" before they handed it to me; by the time I could say it I was already having to edit the source myself, so I was left to deal with the horrible programming etiquette.
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