<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:35 PM, <a href="mailto:wolf@wolfhalton.info">wolf@wolfhalton.info</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<div>...it seems to me that the most impact of obfuscated code <br>
is brought upon the person who needs to maintain it.<br>
Especially if the original maintainer has moved on.</div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>I bring up the commentary of Damian Conway, the author of "Perl Best Practices" by O'reilly and Associates:</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b>"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."</b></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br></b></span></font></font></div><div><br></div><div>Never were truer words of wisdom spoken...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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