Comment Re:Terrible coding standards (Score 1) 430
*adjusts onion on belt*
When I wrote code for the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, the code almost literally wrote itself. I had to document every single function with what it was supposed to do and list inputs, outputs, and every variable that was created/read/modified. By the time I sat down to write the code I knew exactly how each function would work and it was just a matter of implementing it off the spec I had written. Then the code review, then the testing. In the meantime, I got questions from the documentation staff and they had access to the same spec I was using.
But I've gotten the sense that software development isn't done like that anymore, certainly not in the OSS space.