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At 09:21 AM 10/8/97 -0500, Diane Blake wrote:
>Make the programmers change it. Stand up for the need for this, your
>company's reputation is at stake. I have never met a programmer who would
>not change something like that. Other types of suggestions they will often
>not listen to, but spelling and grammar they will change, because it makes
>them look bad.
Make them change it, or do what I did, and learn how to change it yourself.
Most programmers that I've worked with were willing to show me how to deal
with source code control and how to read code if I would change stuff like
that for them.
Julie, who vividly remembers all the all-caps message boxes written by the
Latvian programmer
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