Re: Programmer's unpaid overtime.

From: Randy Howard (randy.howard_at_FOOmegapathdslBAR.net)
Date: 12/09/03 

Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:57:56 -0600

In article <1070902732.17581@news-1.nethere.net>, "Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\"
Foster" <joe@bftsi0.UUCP> says...
> I've used it against EGN once or twice before. It's also effective
> against Micro$hills. Feel free to use it in good health. =)

Are you in charge of the Lewis Carroll trust fund? :-)

> Split. He rails against Split, perhaps because he also hallucinates
> that most programs read multi-GB files into one enormous string, then
> call Split on that string, perhaps multiple times, within loops,

For crying out loud. It's a command utility. It's also open source.
It's not intended for manipulating the IRS database.

> EGN's big 'innovation' is to grab one token at a time, preferably with
> a string concatenation within its inner loop. This is EGN's idea of a
> "sentinel", which easily bloats ordinary string tokenizing to O(n**3).

Ugh.

> I gather EGN and John Nash both see "developers" no one else can see.

ROFLMAO.

> > Name three specific examples of "folk-lore" composed systems which
> > waste thousands of man-hours. Or perhaps, your definition of
> > "man-hour" is biased by the amount of time it takes you to make
> > forward progress?
>
> .NET's garbage collector? Many C compiler vendors' malloc libraries?
> EGN's "powerString", assuming anyone's dumb enough to actually use it?
> Micro$haft's typical QuickSort implementations? Hell, Microslop in
> general qualifies, if you count the time people stare at bluescreens!

I'm still trying to gather what he means by "folk-lore" composed. I
suppose it's some allegation that research and theory are not nearly
as good as hack and slash by a wannabe.

You seem to be implying that any inefficient implementation is "folk-
lore". I don't suppose it really matters much, I was just curious
about what he was specifically railing against. 

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