Re: [FWP] Badly written code

[Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>]

>>>>> "PS" == Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com> writes:

  PS> At 06:50 PM 11/7/99 -0600, Tushar Samant wrote:
  >> There IS such a thing as badness, independent of market value.

  PS> Agreed.

ok, i started this thread and i want to clarify how i got the code and
why i am laughing at it. i was slumming in alt.perl when i found a
posting by the author flaming about not being hired because he deosn't
have a degree. he claimes he is proud of not being a college
graduate. he also claimed massive hippocrisy (sic) in the job
market. then he said he would code for $100 a day. a second post changed
that to $200. i replied with my comment about degrees don't necessarily
correlate to ability and that he has to prove his skills before someone
would hire him. he THEN sent me the code in question as an example of
his work and i was blown away. we all laugh and pick on matt wright and
he has even defended himself in public forums. this is not much
different in that he is using this code as his calling card and resume
(in the same way matt used his archive's fame to get a big web site and
book deal). i feel it is our (all coders, not just perl) duty to be able
to point out incompetent work. this happens in all other professions
with their review boards, licensing, etc. we always say don't use matt's
scripts so we can add don't hire this guy. you don't get what you pay
for. the fact that his program may actually function does not gloss over
how poorly written and unmaintainable it is. 

my comments on his code  were read by him and ignored. he then sent me
several unsolicited emails regarding his amazing work on encryption. he
claims to have found a cheaper/faster way to encrypt vs rsa. i asume
that since his math involves primes, modulus, etc. but he just send
equation shwihc look likehe is a lunatic. check out some of them in
alt.perl or alt.comp.perlcgi.freelance. deja has them now.

so ripping onthis guy i both warranted and despicable. he asks for it
and then you have to pity him. matt wrote some amazingly bad code but he
was a high school kid and gave it away. this guy is trying to patent and
sell this stuff. so we shouldn't laugh at himbut we can enjoy the
code. i never claimed otherwise. the code is funny. this is fun with
perl. use it as examples of how not to write code. i don't mind dropping
this thread. i just wanted to clear up my position.

uri

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