On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:33 PM, gav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cheers for the link, a few nice ones there. > > I just can't help loving this one: > > http://xkcd.com/221/ > > But for the sake of this list: > > sub getrandomnumber {return(4)}; #Chosen by a fair dice roll. Guaranteed to > be random > > > -- > Gav Ford
I liked that one, especially because it reminds me of that scenario where you're working with a customer facing person (product manager, tech support, whoever it is) and they want you to build something but they're too busy to really explain what. So you go ahead and build something that is blindingly obviously not what they actually want, just to make a point. Not that I've ever done that, or would condone such behaviour. I kinda like the sentiment in the one I linked to, that you might start out intending to write something in some clean, abstract language, but half way through when you realise you're a bit shafted, you reach for perl as the quick, magic glue to fill in all the blanks and actually make the components work together and so forth. Alex _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
