Re: Never Wrestle With Pigs

From: goose (ruse_at_webmail.co.za)
Date: 12/24/03 

Date: 24 Dec 2003 01:02:17 -0800

Richard Heathfield <dontmail@address.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message news:<bs80n8$fqu$1@titan.btinternet.com>...

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> Frankly, the incompetence of this particular pig is redlining my bogometer.

As I have indicated in another thread, I have stopped responding
to anything EGN says ... I post from google, and therefore cannot plonk.

(I will respond to any post of his though, that makes even the
slightest movement towards sanity).

> In IRC earlier this evening, several (experienced) programmers glanced at
> his C code; they were in hysterics, finding it very hard to believe that
> anyone could write code that badly.

I've shown some of his code from DQA humungo-thread to students.
His code has the beneficial effect of shocking a student into
following good guidlines.

Initially, they thought it was alright, then they were asked to
re-code for more readability, then for more speed; lastly, just
to "make it better" in the best way they could. His code has had
a lasting(I hope) effect in that they now know what not to do,
*and* why not to do it. no lecture I could have given them would
possibly have got the :why" point through so well :-)

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goose,
   there's always that silver lining; you just need to know
   where to look :-)