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Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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Date: 
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:57:23 GMT
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Oh yeah, one more thing.  If you've gotta sort alphabetically, I say
don't discriminate.  Sort the Lego core colors in the 30000 range
alphabetically too.  What?  You say can't do that, because those numbers
mean something?  How could that be?

I'm gonna be really sorry I wrote this.  Probably right after the coffee
kicks in.  It's just that I'm old and I've been through this before.  I
still remember a sad day long ago when I discovered a junior programmer
had taken an enormous java file and run some silly javadoc function on it
that sorted everything alphabetically.  He left and the next guy to
to work on the project could never find anything because all the functional
groupings were gone.

Don't let that happen to us.

Enjoy,

Don



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  Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
 
(...) Personally I find it harder to remember all the silly names than to remember the basic colors by number. If they aren't sorted by color then I still want red, blue, yellow, black, white, and grey near the top of the list. The numeric order has (...) (15 years ago, 19-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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