Bitter?
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From: Joey Mitchell Comeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [FWP]
perl poetry: push on, learn and code; To: Bruce Campbell
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Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:02:08 -0400 (AST)
> Something I wrote a few months ago at the insistence of someone who
> should really know better (go watch _Trainspotting_ if you don't get
> it). Apologies for the lack of incorporation in an appropriate script:
Something I wrote that you reminded me of. Back when it seemed like I'd
never get anywhere with programming. (bleh) Apologies for the lack of
'fun' or scriptness.
Choose isolation. Choose becoming bitter at everyone and
everything around you, and forgetting why. Choose learning to
program instead of learning how to deal with real life. Choose
shifting bits and using references for complex data structures
while your phone rings unaswered because you can't be bothered
to fscking deal. Choose an alternative to sleep. Choose a fading
compexion in front of a monitor that you worship the same way
those monkies worship TV. Choose talking in text instead of
talking in person. Choose dying alone in your bedroom with a
hard drive full of the programs you based your life around.
Programs lost forever when your computer is reformatted after
you die to put windows onto it for resale value. Choose wasting
your life. Choose isolation.
---- but why would I want to do a thing like that?
joey
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>
> Choose mnemonic identifiers. Choose Strict. Choose Packaging.
> Choose a bloody obscure naming convention, choose library paths
> longer than the program text, golf, JAPHs and operatoratic
> pedantry. Choose 5.6 , high caffiene and upgrading woes. Choose
> no friends. Choose black jeans and matching #!/bin/perl JAPH
> shirts. Choose names for your OO libraries in a range of obtuse
> weird injoke-derived names. Choose Perl and wondering why the
> fsck you don't have an outside life. Choose 'use'ing those
> fscking OO libraries and wondering what on earth you were on at
> the time. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, always
> bringing up your lowest ever JAPH score, nothing more than an
> embarressment to the selfish, fscked up lusers who just
> installed
> 8.3 and know nothing about how real perl programming is meant to
> work.
>
> Choose Your Future.
>
> Choose to Have Fun With Perl
>
> --==-- Bruce.
>
> Its all Jason's fault.
>
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