On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 22:47:43 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 05/08/2015 23:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 06:20:17 PM Mick wrote: > >> On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 11:47:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> Much of what makes programming work has been dumbed down in recent > >>> years so that employable persons without imagination[1] can have jobs > >>> and do something useful. I'm reminded of an old saw about PHP: > >>> > >>> The nice thing about php is it let's everyone and their dog write code. > >>> The bad thing about php is that they do. > >> > >> Your imagination[1] footnote didn't make it to the list. I thought for > >> a minute that you used some php parser ... :p > > > > It's not that old for an "old saying". > > I can't find a reference to that saying older then august 2014 using > > Google. > > > > And all those are links to the same email written by our own Alan > > McKinnon.... > > Ah! That's because it was I who made it up years ago and have told it to > lots of people. > > About a year ago is obviously the first time I wrote it down :-)
Run the same search for perl - it's probably more appropriate than php and may find older samples of the same ol' saying. -- Regards, Mick
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