I believe that Scott Adams (Dilbert.com) might have a use for the story line... John Ferrell http://DixieNC.US ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denny Esterline" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [OT] 68hc11? >> >But the worst part, the part they should be killed >> >for, they were running out of code space - so they >> >DELETED THE COMMENTS!!! >> >> I presume you mean disk space on the development system. > > That would at least be logicaly defendable, but no. Short on codespace on > the eeprom, delete the comments in the source code. I wish I was kidding. > >> They did not happen to keep any printouts of previous versions? > > I don't actualy have the job yet. The customer's managment hasn't figured > out how screwed they are yet, they're just merrily going along with the > same > _company_ they used for the last ~10 years. They haven't realized all the > competent developers jumped ship and thier project is on an express ride > to > hell. As to the original code, we *think* there is a copy archived on the > customer's network. But would you expect somebody that deletes comments in > source code to save space to know how to use a version control system? > > -Denny > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist