Kode Vicious: The Return: A koder with attitude, KV answers your questions. Miss Manners he ain’t.

Dear Kode Vicious, I have this problem. I can never seem to find bits of code I know I wrote. This isn’t so much work code--that’s on our source server--but you know, those bits of test code I wrote last month, I can never find them. How do you deal ...

Dear Kode Vicious, Where I work we use a mixture of C++ code, Python, and shell scripts in our product. I always have a hard time trying to figure out when it’s appropriate to use which for a certain job. Do you code in only assembler and C, or is this ...

Dear KV, My co-workers keep doing really bad things in the code, such as writing C++ code with macros that have gotos that jump out of them, and using assert in lower-level functions as an error-handling facility. I keep trying to get them to stop doing ...