Re: these people

From: Sammy (samedi@clark.net)
Date: 11/05/95


On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, waliczek gary jason wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Sammy wrote:
> 
> > 
> > From my experience with big code in foreign languages, it seems to be 
> > less confusing if you have no knowledge of C when you start workin on a 
> > mud.  
> 
> Uh, no.  You see those of us who actually know how to do programing like to
> optimise our code - to minimize lag and crashes. For those of us who know
> how to program getting something to work is not the only goal...
> 
> 
> > Those of you who, like me, don't know the difference between a 
> > preparser and a profiler should pity poor Mark, who knows too much about 
> > programming for his own good.  I can now see that my ignorance is bliss.  
> > Though I've never seen a yacc (except in magazines) and don't know who 
> > lex is, I do know how to get my code to compile and work right after no 
> > more than 10-15 tries (using my favorite spell-checker and 
> > syntax-checker, gcc).
> 
> With people like this coding muds, is it any wonder that so many of them 
> have crashes as often as they do?
> 
> > 
> > and keep in mind that some of us think programming manuals are evil.
> > 
> 
> and a great attitude to go with your mastery of the subject.
> 
AHA!  It's true!  Real programmer really don't have a sense of humor :)

I'd always suspected it, but now I know it's true!

Sam
:^)



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