[Dovecot] emulating courier imap

Miquel van Smoorenburg miquels at cistron.net
Mon Mar 21 17:21:00 EET 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 23:30 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I'm not sure if your patch is exactly correct for this. The LIST code is
> pretty strange in how it works and I think I've finally gotten it right,
> changing something might break it.. Even though only with such
> hidden=yes prefix="" special case..
> 
> Anyway, I'll try to look at the code soon to make sure it does what it's
> supposed to and add a few comments there..

That made me think of a quote by Brian Kernighan:

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
— Brian W. Kernighan 

Mike.



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