Re: evaluate false, again

Pete Dashwood wrote:

A similar thing happened to me. I once wrote a FORTRAN subroutine
where each variable was a different number of dollar signs [i.e.,
$$$ = SQRT($$**2 + $$$$) ].

A co-worker ("peer" in your example) expressed mild dissatisfaction
with my style.

I smashed the fucker in the mouth and moved on.

Quite right too...:-)

They can express dissatisfaction with your code, but never with your
style...

(That was the best laugh I had all day... thanks :-))


A programmers is much like a dentist: scientifically trained, but also
creative.

And, like an artist living in a garret in Greenwich Village (or the Left
Bank), a programmer is extremely defensive about his "creations." Programs
that don't work, never worked, and cannot be made to work, are often
protected against all depradations no matter how valid the complaint.

In fact, the most acceptance I've ever seen in this regard was:

"Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because
of a single slip-up, sir."


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