relaunchd: a portable clone of launchd

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Dan Partelly wrote:

> Verbose is not bad , Konstantin .  I actually prefer verbose source. 
> It is easy to read and understand. It is preferable all day long to 
> clever hacks and obfuscated ways of writing code
>
> Ill tell you one thing. Years ago, when Ms Leaked on their site 
> ntoskrnl.exe symbols with private debug information , I dint had too 
> much trouble understanding a lot of the implementation details from 
> the kernel , exactly because MS is verbose. And that .. in WinDbg 
> assembly. The source would have been much much more easier to read.
>
> Yeah, MS’s APIs are not the best I give you that. But regarding 
> *readability* , Windows is leaps and bounds ahead of any Unix I seen. 
> It is extremely easy to figure out what a certain function does, how 
> they use data structures, and what the members of said data structures 
> represent.
>
> I like verbosity. Makes figuring things easier, makes maintenance 
> easier. I frankly hope to spend as little of possible of my life 
> reading terse source code. This is also why I like Ada language. Its a 
> joy to read Ada source.

Ok, speaking as a software engineer for 31 years and has been
developing and maintaining Ada programs for the last 25 of those
years...  Ada is just a language, I've seen both bad design and
good design in it, as well as in C and Java.  I've seen massive
over verboseness in Ada and it makes maintaining it a nightmare.
When your coding guidelines have a maximum line length of 132
or greater characters, and lines _routinely_ go _well_ over 80
characters, because of package hierarchy, and package and
subprogram (methods) names being very long, you know something
is wrong.

It depends on how you define what is a good level of verboseness,
and you can have that in pretty much any language.  You just
need to herd cats to follow the guidelines.

I echo the sentiments about CORBA.  Being forced to use
bloated middleware to do something simple...  I have to
stop thinking about it because it makes me angry ;-)

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DE