RE: [FWP] Re: HUMOR: you have to see this code!

["Jeff Boes" <jboes@qtm.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fwp@technofile.org [mailto:owner-fwp@technofile.org]On
> Behalf Of Charles H
> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 8:03 am
> To: fwp@technofile.org
> Subject: Re: [FWP] Re: HUMOR: you have to see this code!
>
>
> Yes, it's weird, and yes it's almost funny. But it probably does
> what he wanted it to
> do, and he probably has a god-awful lot of hours invested in it,
> and he is probably
> proud of his work.

Agreed. I was a bit embarassed by the rather harsh treatment he got here,
although having read his Usenet posts I can see he painted a big target on
himself.

To the "professionals" on this list: If he bills himself out at $200 a day
and can create a functional script, and you bill yourself out at $1000 a day
(but can create the same functionality in 20% the time), aren't his skills
worth the same as yours to the end customer? I've got a M.S. in Computer
Science, and frankly most of the CGI jobs I take on don't exercise much if
any of the things I learned about computability, and programming language
theory. So what's to stop him from making a living?

His code was frightening, but only from the standpoint of me having to go in
and maintain it. I've felt the same fright (but for different reasons)
examining the innards of Xyzzy::foobar (insert your least favorite CPAN
module here--I didn't want to ruffle anyone's feathers by quoting a specific
example). I think (I know!) some of us were put off by his attitude, but he
got that somewhere else by being turned down for jobs he knows he can do.


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"The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men."
  --E. M. Cioran


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