[Asterisk-Dev] [Rant] [long] - code style and quality

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 08:58 -0700, Preston Garrison wrote:
>
>   If i want to make my code messy, then I will do so.

You are perfectly free to do so.  And we are perfectly free to reject
such code.
 
> You should be thankful you even have asterisk to work with, and stop 
> complaining about messy code.

By that reasoning, you should stop complaining that Asterisk routes all
of your 911 calls to 1-900-HOT-SEXX and just be thankful that you even
have Asterisk to begin with.

>   Most of the developers have actual day 
> jobs, and spending alot of time cleaning up and document their code 
> would either take away from them, or the amount of time they spend 
> adding new features to asterisk.

Actually, many Asterisk developers are paid to work on/with Asterisk.
Having well written, well structured code ultimately improves programmer
productivity.

>  If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Well, some of us believe that "messy" code is broken.

Jeff

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