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Re: New version of StoreInc.ex

• Posted by DB James <larch at adelphia.net> Aug 07, 2005
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Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> DB James wrote:
> 
> > I have uploaded a new version of StoreInc.ex that addresses the long
> > filename issue.
> 
> That's probably because you included part of my DOS LFN library.
> You carefully removed my name, though. Congragulations!
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Regards,
>    Juergen
> 

Hi Juergen,

You're quite wrong about "carefully removed my name".  I have always wanted
everyone who creates anything to have a credit listing in every context.  The
problem, in my opinion arises when personal attention to that issue is needed. 
My program Mash.ex routinely clips out comments external to the main file and
external to functions.  If your name were listed within any routine, it would be
there for all the world to see.  (By the way, thanks very much for your LFN
library).

This has given me an opportunity to remark on something that I have noticed for
years.  If a programmer wants credit for a routine which is used by someone else,
then I propose that the programmer's name be included in each routine, so that if
the routine is clipped out of a program or a library, then the name is still
associated with the routine.  It would then truly a matter of "carefully removed
my name" if the name were missing.  I understand that the ESL routines will
include the creator's name.

--Quark