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* fix another variable-related bug * API templates may have descriptions (and *should*!)
author Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com>
date Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:25:51 -0800
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1 Make It So!
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2 ===========
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4 templates for the people
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6 So people generally do things the easiest way possible. If you try to
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7 get people to send you a file with, say, a "one-off" script, they will
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8 probably hard code a bunch of stuff in it. Then, you're not really
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9 sure what needs to be changed and because you're human you might make
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10 a mistake. Worse, its a perl script and you're a python programmer.
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11 You don't know what that script does!
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13 And this is the time of the iceberg. If it really is a one-off, who
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14 cares? But quickly one-offs become a deployment story, and not a very
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15 efficient one.