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cpilkington78 / ASCIITranslator

Simple program to convert/translate binary, octal, and hexadecimal messages to its ASCII equivalent and display the message to the console window in ASCII whether the message is typed directly into the console window, or a path to a text file is provided.
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Remember the KISS principle #8

Open cchampio opened 9 years ago

cchampio commented 9 years ago

Keep it simple stupid. Over engineering is as bad as under engineering. There's a fine line.

cpilkington78 commented 9 years ago

I am a fan of KISS, but I need to talk with you to get your idea of over-engineering vs under-engineering vs just right. I think you might think I over-engineered the error codes, but being former IT, I ABSOLUTELY HATE when programmers try to be TOO GENERIC and vague instead of telling me EXACTLY what is wrong. Need further discussion on this topic.

cchampio commented 9 years ago

No I wasn't referring to anything you over engineered, I was just giving advice to keep in mind for future.

On Monday, July 6, 2015, Chris Pilkington notifications@github.com wrote:

I am a fan of KISS, but I need to talk with you to get your idea of over-engineering vs under-engineering vs just right. I think you might think I over-engineered the error codes, but being former IT, I ABSOLUTELY HATE when programmers try to be TOO GENERIC and vague instead of telling me EXACTLY what is wrong. Need further discussion on this topic.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/cpilkington78/ASCIITranslator/issues/8#issuecomment-118719855 .

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