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Re-designing a system
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31/07/2003 11:30:51
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Visual FoxPro
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00815140
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>As an aside, a lot of the legacy code I've inherited are from when programmers were paid by lines-of-code, and those suckers stuck all manner of useless comments everywhere :-) That's really step 1, strip out all the nonsensical, linenumber-increasing comments added to produce larger paychecks :-)

Ah, I see. I had misunderstood this, and thought that somebody else wanted you to reduce your own comments.
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