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On Thursday, August 06, 2015 02:59:09 PM Mick wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 22:47:43 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On 05/08/2015 23:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > > On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 06:20:17 PM Mick wrote: |
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> > >> On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 11:47:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > >>> Much of what makes programming work has been dumbed down in recent |
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> > >>> years so that employable persons without imagination[1] can have jobs |
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> > >>> and do something useful. I'm reminded of an old saw about PHP: |
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> > >>> |
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> > >>> The nice thing about php is it let's everyone and their dog write |
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> > >>> code. |
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> > >>> The bad thing about php is that they do. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Your imagination[1] footnote didn't make it to the list. I thought for |
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> > >> a minute that you used some php parser ... :p |
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> > > |
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> > > It's not that old for an "old saying". |
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> > > I can't find a reference to that saying older then august 2014 using |
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> > > Google. |
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> > > |
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> > > And all those are links to the same email written by our own Alan |
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> > > McKinnon.... |
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> > Ah! That's because it was I who made it up years ago and have told it to |
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> > lots of people. |
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> > |
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> > About a year ago is obviously the first time I wrote it down :-) |
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> Run the same search for perl - it's probably more appropriate than php and |
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> may find older samples of the same ol' saying. |
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Nope, can't find a single hit with either line. |
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Also would surprise me, as the largest part of the massive amount of bad code |
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(mostly copy/pasted from each other) arrived after PHP appeared. |
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