Maybe he was paid by the word(more words = more money). johnm :)
On 4/13/06, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .. is this not one of the worst written pieces of technobabble you've seen? > > http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/javascript/article.php/3470971 > > I ran across this via the del.ico.us rss feed. > > It wanders around trying to make some misbegotten points about > object-orientation, compilation, and such. > > For example: > "Continuing with the model car example, when you built the engine, you > didn't use any of the parts that would later build the seats (a 350 > four-barrel engine with a seat belt sticking out if the piston would > look pretty silly). The point is that all the parts that made up the > engine were of a certain class of parts. They all went together. Ditto > with the body and then the interior." > > "The point is that in these languages, you build objects out of > classes of commands to create the whole. Understand the terminology?" > > Classes of commands? All engines parts are of the same class? > Understand the terminology. Why yes I do, but the author doesn't. > > Then it starts to wind up with: > > " So to answer the question of which to use where... use whichever > fits your needs. That sounds like a cop-out answer," > > BECAUSE IT IS! > > It kind of makes me want to establish a Bulwer-Lytton contest for > technical writing, if one doesn't already exist. > > Sorry for ranting, but for some reason this one really set me off. > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site > http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
