Re: [CentOS] Was: Re: Upgrade from 5.6 => 5.7, is, programming with style

2011-09-17 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 9/16/11, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Remember, even among those who studied, a) half of them were in the bottom >> of their class, and b) too many are True Believers in the latest >> programming (not the P word!) paradigm; y'know, rec

Re: [CentOS] Was: Re: Upgrade from 5.6 => 5.7, is, programming with style

2011-09-17 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 9/16/11, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Remember, even among those who studied, a) half of them were in the bottom > of their class, and b) too many are True Believers in the latest > programming (not the P word!) paradigm; y'know, recursion is the answer to > *everything*, or OO, or Part of th

[CentOS] Was, Re: Upgrade from 5.6 => 5.7, is, programming with style and elegance

2011-09-15 Thread m . roth
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:51:23PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 10:42 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: >> Not a 'join' insight :-) > > I think this is how we all started learning SQL and writing web > applications... without normalization. And it won't

[CentOS] Was, Re: Upgrade from 5.6 => 5.7, is, programming with style and elegance

2011-09-15 Thread m . roth
Keith Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: > > *snip* > >> Sometimes well-paid contract work can make the contractor feel like a >> prostitute. Does one object to utter stupidity and walk-out or abandon >> one's principals and stay ? > > I gues it depends on how much the ho

[CentOS] Was: Re: Upgrade from 5.6 => 5.7, is, programming with style

2011-09-15 Thread m . roth
Always Learning wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 01:41 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> On 9/16/11, Always Learning wrote: > It is surprising that some 'computer people' lack a logical insight into > their own work. One 'expert' wrote a single Cobol IF statement spanning > 10 and a bit pages. 60