This man speaks the truth. Incremental improvement applies to the
developer on a daily basis and what once was genius quickly becomes
embarrassing the more you learn.

On Jul 22, 6:09 am, Neil Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't look at it like that. You start worrying when you look at code a
> couple of years old and *don't* think "which idiot wrote that" -
> because then you'll know you've stopped improving.
>
> Next week I've been coding for 25 years. I swear 98% of what I've
> written in that time was written by some rank amateur posing under my
> name.
>
> :-)
>
> NeilW
>
> On 21 Jul, 21:49, "Jamis Buck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the prod, Neil. Mostly I'm just fighting my way through
> > some suffocating frustration over Net::SSH and Net::SFTP's ABOMINABLE
> > design. I so hate myself for writing that code. I'm going to suppress
> > my gag reflex long enough to release cap2 (with some caveats, since
> > certain things are broken, thanks to Net::SSH) and then I'm going to
> > go off the radar for as long as it takes to rewrite Net::SSH and
> > Net::SFTP.


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