Re: Although I'm part of a team, you can't touch my code, get lost.

From:
"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sun, 4 Nov 2007 21:09:53 -0800
Message-ID:
<Oolggo2HIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
Well, If you want to publish code, make sure it's standard-compliant, at
least. And if you want to write C++ code, it doesn't hurt to learn it first.
1. A function declaration and definition MUST include return type
declaration. This is C++, not K&R C.
2. Classic realloc/HeapRealloc problem will lead to memory leak in your
code, if those functions fail. By the way, mentioned in "Writing Solid
Code".
3. You should always test if resource allocation succeed. Be it heap
creation, heap allocation, or other such calls.
4. The code doesn't include a function to initialize and destroy your
dynamic array. Is it used in one place of your application only? Do you have
to duplicate it if you need another similar piece of code?
5. I'm afraid your code is no faster than plain vanilla std::vector. So much
for "super fast dynamic array".

And writing open source code doesn't guarantee anybody big money. Those
"famous" projects that bring some modest financing are led by a group of
seasoned programmers who are vetting any outside contributions. As soon as
they see code like yours, I think they simply put the sender's email to a
blocked address list, to save themselves from emotional breakdown.

"Jeff?Relf" <Jeff_Relf@Yahoo.COM> wrote in message
news:Jeff_Relf_2007_Nov_4__10_19_A2@Cotse.NET...

As much as you don't like my source code, Alexander,
I like yours even less.

All that matters is what the code does;
if I liked an app, and I wanted to make it fully mine,
I'd write 100 percent of it myself. I tell others to do the same.

I wouldn't write my own operating system,
so I have to live with it, work around it.
Same goes for FireFox which is, by the way, like an operating system.

As for so-called Open Source... remember this:
" In 2005, the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation had
 a combined revenue of [ 52.9 mega dollars, U.S. ]. ".

Although I'm part of a team, you can't touch my code, get lost.

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