On 02/21/2010 10:54 AM, Zachary Uram wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:28 AM, James Cameron<quozl at us.netrek.org> wrote: > >> There is no automatic method that would be welcome, since it would >> certainly make mistakes with the code. It takes manual work by people >> who know the code ... and if those people are available we'd far rather >> have them work on features the community needs than readability that >> some university student discarded us for. >> > Ok. That make sense. > I think the readability has actually improved significantly since the early '90s. :-) There is always room for improvement, but I have seen much worse. When I first started hacking on the client and the server, around 1990(?), I was around 12, and was able to navigate the code, create a borg client with all the standard features (assisted targeting, automatic phaser of plasma, automatic detonate others, etc.), and extend the server to do various things ("natural" planet orbits - both ways, smooth galaxy wrap around with visibility back to the client across the borders, etc.). It was not really that hard. If the code was really that bad, I think I would have had more trouble... :-) Cheers, mark