Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Lamb Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How do you perceive programming? how do you look at the quality of software? Help needed with a quick survey!!!1 Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:58:21 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <9b7b6d91-b54b-4337-95d3-0be2b6d93ace@googlegroups.com> <1fa18c8e-f4f9-4e06-ac3d-50c457d9f79f@googlegroups.com> <39049b29-6ca5-4ff4-98c5-11c213fefcfc@googlegroups.com> <513a75d8$0$32115$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <45WdnZbuK9HKtKbMnZ2dnUVZ8i2dnZ2d@bt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 19:56:37 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="582e165532e9c292c654c5bbdca1358d"; logging-data="8303"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/8sfY1+M6oAt5fEMNJ865W" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 In-Reply-To: <45WdnZbuK9HKtKbMnZ2dnUVZ8i2dnZ2d@bt.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:1y27mX6B7IuGZifLKD8aA4goZuM= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:22854 On 09/03/2013 7:21 AM, lipska the kat wrote: > On 09/03/13 11:09, komal singh wrote: > >> where are these so called rules? > > In his head and in the heads of the other members of the cabal. Less pejoratively worded, and as I alluded to previously, they're tied up in decades of culture -- and like any culture, many of the "rules" are unwritten and not everybody follows them all the time. An old-timer might be forgiven a lapse that would be jumped on in a newcomer.