Thank God those old days of catering to the PC are GONE.. ?.. and now we can cater to the developer, or more accurately the poor sucker 12-18 months later who has to maintain our code !!! I left perl cgi hacking because perl is a "write once" language; I could hardly even maintain my own code 12 months later so how could anyone else? And I try. Let's write maintainable code, people. Have mercy. USD$ 21.50 @ http://www.bookpool.com/.x/ihqnb47450/sm/1556154844 Code Complete, by Steve McConnell Take it to Starbucks with you next time!; a good read. > -----Original Message----- > From: Stanislav Malyshev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 4:20 AM > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub. > > J>> sTrPoS > J>> StRpOs > J>> STrpOS > J>> stRPos > J>> sTRpOS > J>> ... > J>> sTRPOS > J>> STRPOs > Once I had to deal with an assembler for some embedded processor that > allowed symbol names up to 6 characters. That was exactly the > way to make > different readable identifiers, so that you could have lstart, lstarT, > lstaRt, lstaRT etc. Thanks God that assembler was case-sensitive. > Those old days... :) > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115 -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
