Re: [FWP] Badly written code

[Simon Whitaker <simon@netcetera.org>]

On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 22:46:08 -0600, you wrote:

> A lot of the comments on this guy's code have seemed incredibly mean 
> spirited to me.  It's way too easy to target novice code for ridicule.  I 
> have some old Perl code I'm happy to say is long gone - who 
> doesn't?  Granted, this guy did toss his code out for general review, but 
> that was just poor judgement on his part, and not much fun really.

No, he sent it privately to one person who in turn decided to ridicule
it on a separate forum where he knew the guy wasn't around to defend
himself. Not something to be proud of IMHO, no matter how bad his code
was.

Regards,

Simon

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