[Cryptography] paper code review, was: Re: bounded pointers in C

Jason Cooper cryptography at lakedaemon.net
Mon Apr 28 09:58:04 EDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 01:42:16PM -0700, David Mercer wrote:

> I think that printing the code out as hardcopy is valuable for the
> "different point of view" aspect of the exercise. I've also found that
> useful when maintaining large and/or old codebases ("add this feature to
> this 10 million line/10 year old system"). You can go nuts with a
> highlighter marking up all of the places a variable that contains
> externally provided data/state and lay out a LOT of pages to look at them
> at once. You just aren't going to get as much code displayed at once on
> monitors as you are on pages spread out on tables.

I've found a magnetic whiteboard and a bunch of business card sized
refrigerator magnets works great.  It's much easier than a table.

thx,

Jason.


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