| threat2 | peterS: I like it :) |
| integral | the speed of a ?: isn't significantly different from a if else |
| rindolf | peterS: I'm now hacking some Perl code that dates back to Perl 1. perl 1 even. TimToady tends to write quick and dirty. |
| peterS | integral: right, he's talking about mauke's monstrosity though |
| rindolf | And the generations of programmers after him did not improve it much. |
| peterS | and I do mean the term 'monstrosity' in the nicest possible way |
| ofer0 | rindolf, got an example ? |
| integral | Luckily lwall can write better code when he tries :) |
| rindolf | ofer0: it's Test::Run. ofer0: look at s2p. integral: some of my code is pretty nasty. |
| ofer0 | rindolf, I mean, for C code |
| rindolf | ofer0: oh. ofer0: perl1? Or the original patch? Or rn? |
| threat2 | peterS: ok I dont like it now :) too hard to read, () ? : ;is easier |
| somian | "Sooo, tell me ... my little one-eyed one ... on what poor, defenseless planet has my ... MONSTROSITY ... been ... UNLEASHED!?" |
| ofer0 | example for Larry's "quick and dirty" C code oh my god! Larry used goto() in s2p |
| threat2 | isn't goto evil? |
| peterS | goto is only evil if you misuse it |
| somian | Only if you are addicted to dogma, threat2 |
| threat2 | shoudn't any one who uses labels be shot? |
| rindolf | threat2: are you aware of the history? I once JoS-forumed it. Let me try to google it. http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware3/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=78092 |
| shorten | rindolf's url is at http://xrl.us/vhb5 |
| action | jagerman didn't know "forum" was a verb |
| jagerman | didn't know "forum" was a verb |
| rindolf | threat2: http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware3/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=78092 |
| shorten | rindolf's url is at http://xrl.us/vhb6 |
| rindolf | jagerman: one of the beauties of English is that you can verb any noun. |
| threat2 | rindolf: Message 0 does not exist or has been deleted. |
| rindolf | jagerman: you are jagermanned. |
| peterS | don't make me rindolf you |
| rindolf | threat2: works for me. |