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* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Bitter?
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Joey Mitchell Comeau
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
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> From: Joey Mitchell Comeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [FWP]
> perl poetry: push on, learn and code; To: Bruce Campbell
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:02:08 -0400 (AST)
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> > 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
>
>
> If A is success, then the formula is A = X+Y+Z. X is work, Y is play
> and Z is keep your mouth shut. -A. E. -----
> [EMAIL PROTECTED](o)s(pam).ca -------
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>
>
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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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