Comments on: Morning Coffee, blogs, and XPCOM http://vocamus.net/dave/?p=879 Philosophy for the programming set, served on home made bread Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: jmdesp http://vocamus.net/dave/?p=879&cpage=1#comment-120379 jmdesp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:01:23 +0000 http://vocamus.net/dave/?p=879#comment-120379 Making your student work on the core Thunderbird code was evil :-) Warn them you send them in an exploration of the Moria. Really it's good to have them work on it, but don't forget to tell them that if they feel mailnews/mime/ code is ugly non-sense, that's because it's true. That nsMsgHeaderParser.cpp code is not the worse, it's just very, very old school, K&R style C coding. With what this implies cf "Bug 413874 - Audit mail MIME code for string buffer abuse". They are also uglier things lurking down there. Making your student work on the core Thunderbird code was evil :-) Warn them you send them in an exploration of the Moria.

Really it’s good to have them work on it, but don’t forget to tell them that if they feel mailnews/mime/ code is ugly non-sense, that’s because it’s true.

That nsMsgHeaderParser.cpp code is not the worse, it’s just very, very old school, K&R style C coding. With what this implies cf “Bug 413874 – Audit mail MIME code for string buffer abuse”. They are also uglier things lurking down there.

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