Re: maintaining old C code

Roger Barnett <Roger@natron.demon.co.uk>
14 Feb 1996 21:31:51 -0500

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Re: maintaining old C code Roger@natron.demon.co.uk (Roger Barnett) (1996-02-14)
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From: Roger Barnett <Roger@natron.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 14 Feb 1996 21:31:51 -0500
Organization: Natron Software Maintenance Ltd
References: 96-01-116 96-02-059 96-02-108
Keywords: C, tools

gmckee@cloudnine.com (Gary McKee) writes:
> Your comment certainly substantiates my (implied) assertion about the
> maintainability of C language code.
>[snip]
> What's that latin phrase about "the more things change, the more they
> seem the same" ?


Related to this is the current demand that CASE tools which generate C
or C++ code should also be able to "reverse engineer" from code to
design tool - this is, of course, so that people can continue to code
in their usual way but then generate some kind of design documentation
at the end...


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Roger Barnett
Natron Software Ltd, York, England
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