Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-224 Look out for new networking behavior [FIXED]

[Alan McKinnon]

On 06/08/2015 20:28, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Thursday, August 06, 2015 02:59:09 PM Mick wrote:
>> On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 22:47:43 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 05/08/2015 23:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 06:20:17 PM Mick wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 11:47:58 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>>>> Much of what makes programming work has been dumbed down in recent
>>>>>> years so that employable persons without imagination[1] can have jobs
>>>>>> and do something useful. I'm reminded of an old saw about PHP:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The nice thing about php is it let's everyone and their dog write
>>>>>> code.
>>>>>> The bad thing about php is that they do.
>>>>>
>>>>> Your imagination[1] footnote didn't make it to the list.  I thought for
>>>>> a minute that you used some php parser ...  :p
>>>>
>>>> It's not that old for an "old saying".
>>>> I can't find a reference to that saying older then august 2014 using
>>>> Google.
>>>>
>>>> And all those are links to the same email written by our own Alan
>>>> McKinnon....
>>>
>>> Ah! That's because it was I who made it up years ago and have told it to
>>> lots of people.
>>>
>>> About a year ago is obviously the first time I wrote it down :-)
>>
>> Run the same search for perl - it's probably more appropriate than php and
>> may find older samples of the same ol' saying.
>
> Nope, can't find a single hit with either line.
>
> Also would surprise me, as the largest part of the massive amount of bad code
> (mostly copy/pasted from each other) arrived after PHP appeared.

It works just as well for php, perl, basic, VB, J2EE frameworks and any
draggy-droppy workflow thing that claims to produce runnable code.

It seems that only C is immune, probably because of the high barrier to
entry that must be climbed before writing something useful (and hello
world is not useful :-) )


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Alan McKinnon
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