magicus wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:11:02 +0100, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com>
wrote:
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
On Monday 27 July 2009 16:49:25 Aahz wrote:
In article <mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-l...@python.org>,
Hendrik van Rooyen <hend...@microcorp.co.za> wrote:
On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote:
I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should switch to PHP?
I have searched, but I can find nothing about this mediocre language.
Could you tell us more?
:-P
(For anyone who is confused by Hendrik's humor, he is saying that
David was referring to a programming language named "mediocre".
English grammar is confusing!)
This is true - I intended, when I started the post, to make a crack
about how he knew that he was mediocre - If there were some exam or
test that you have to pass or fail to be able to make the claim to
mediocrity. I was imagining a sort of devil's rating scale for
programmers, that could cause one to say things like: "I am studying
hard so that I can get my mediocre certificate, and one day I hope to
reach hacker rank".
And then the similarity to "I am a COBOL programmer" struck me, and I
abandoned the ratings.
If you were a "COBOL" programmer, would you want to shout about it? :-)
The last time I wrote anything in COBOL was sometime in the early 80s.
Somehow that makes me feel good, heh.
COBOL: it feels good when you stop. :-)
(I was actually referring to the convention of all capitals representing
shouting.)
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