Warp wrote:
>   I have encountered this problem myself in a project I was working.

Same here. The one major program we hired a consultant to do at the last job 
needed to simply read a config file, then read from  N streams on a device 
driver and stuff them into a database as the data came in. Something like 30 
classes to do that, because each bit had its own abstract memory manager 
class and then the class that actually did work then yadda yadda. I would 
want to change something after he left, and it would take me like an hour to 
track down where he parsed the value of a config variable (and this is 
simple name=value\nname=value\n... sort of thing). You'd think given the 
names, you'd be able to, like, grep for the name in the source code and 
track it from there, wouldn't you?

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