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From: Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Software Precepts
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 21:53:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-03-20, Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
> Software Precepts
>=================
> * Specifications are for the weak and timid!
> * You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you
>   stand!
> * Indentation?! - I will show you how to indent when I indent your
>   skull!
> * What is this talk of 'release'? We do not make software
>   'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of
>   designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
> * Our function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments'
>   - and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
> * Debugging? We do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
> * A TRUE programmer does not comment on their code!
> * Our software does NOT have BUGS. It has FEATURES, and those
>   features are too sophisticated for one such as you to understand.
> * Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it!
>   Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
> Based on: <https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/precepts>

I saw on Slashdot once: "I refuse to comment code. It was hard to write,
it should be hard to read."  LOL.

This was fun, very good stuff.  Especially software "escaping."