On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:20:27PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:12:51PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
> > Grep waffled:
>
> People always waffle, never pancake. How odd.
>
> > > It increases my estimation of the mean time to failure
> > > of the system which the line resides in.
> >
> > That's a highly radical standpoint. I'd think the person would be more
> > inclined to agree with a decreased mean time to failure with people
> > writing semi-obfuscated code.
> >
> > Perl gives you the freedom to express yourself how you want, though with
> > freedom comes the need for eternal vigilance. Especially against nutters
> > typing unreadable code.
>
> Oh blimey. The nutters typeing unreadable code are unfortunately most
> perl programmers out there. Never forget what an elite clique you live
> in by enjoying writing code and partaking in code with others (this user
> group, f'rinstance). Whilst we all like to condone unreadable code,
^^^^^^^
I don't think that means what you think it means.
> this doesn't change the fact that it's like trying to sit there and
> command the sea to stop rising up the beach, when faced with the number
> of programmers out there. See: Matts Scripts. And countless other
> unnameable horrors that lurk unreleased on hard disks everywhere.
cheers
Andrew
