Go for it! You will have to pay me at 15% royalty for each page view of course. (geez, do I *ever* stop joking?!?)
But yeah, feel free. Of course, I should probably post it on *my* blog, but that thing is neglected worse than the US.'s relationship with France (sorry, couldn't think of anything better). -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Thu, June 2, 2005 9:20 am, Simon Chappell said: > Frank this needs to be preserved for posterity. Would you mind if I > post it to my blog? > > On 6/1/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Wow, so *this* is what it's like being the parent of Rosemary's baby! >> >> I wonder if there has ever been a more OT thread? >> >> Allow me to summarize all the salient points, and perhaps this thread >> can die peacefully... >> >> (1) Patterns are good, but don't cram'em in everywhere you have any >> problem to solve. And if you DO feel the need to cram'em in everywhere, >> I can suggest one other place you should be cramming them. >> >> (2) OOP is great, but don't give me a 500-class hierarchy to walk. I >> can comprehend the geometry of a tesseract, but not some of the >> convoluted messes some people spew out just because they read the terms >> inheritance, polymorphism, composition and overloading in some "Teach >> Yourself To Take Someone's Job That Actual Knows Their Ass From Their >> Elbow In 24 Hours" books. >> >> (2a) Don't give me 5 classes with 5,000 lines of code a piece either! >> Your someone that would use a damned goto if it was implemented! >> >> (3) If you never did Assembly, you suck (Laugh, damn it! That's a joke! >> Ooooooorrrr is it??) >> >> (4) IDEs are fine, but if you can't do yourself what those 3 buttons you >> just clicked did for you, get outta my shop. Look, I use a lathe rather >> than widdle the decorative legs on my kitchen chairs, but the point is I >> COULD widdle them if I wanted to. Using modern development tools is >> much like that. >> >> (4a) If you can't debug your own damned code without a bouncing ball >> leading you through line-by-line, you have no business writing that code >> in the first place. I'm not suggesting you HAVE to put a System.out >> after each line of code, but if your relying on the IDE to hold your >> hand to understand what's going on in your own code, hit yourself with a >> hammer, please. >> >> (5) Much like the Red Sox until their World Series win, LISP proponents >> are never going to stop whining about how great their language of choice >> is until it's king of the hill. In other words, they're never going to >> stop whining. >> >> (6) C/C++ creates unmaintainable nightmare code. If you suck at it. >> Same for Java. Same for LISP. Same for Pascal. Same for ADA. Same >> for f'ing BASIC. Anyone see a pattern here?!? (Let me be the first to >> name it: it's Frank Zammetti's "ProgrammersSuckNotLanguages" pattern). >> >> (7) The Timex Sinclait 1000/ZX81 is the PC we should all have on our >> desktops. If you want to "multitask", buy two. >> >> (8) The German version of Outlook is stupid because to us Americans it >> looks like everyone is talking about Root Beer all the time (Review the >> thread... review the thread...) >> >> (9) Nothing is complex. There's your Zen moment for the day. >> >> (10) Corollary to #9: Everything is complex. Buddhist moment for the >> day. >> >> (Zen. Buddhist. Zen-Buddhist. I admit, I don't know what I'm talking >> about!) >> >> (11) Most of you apparently went to school in the Alps because it seems >> to have snowed a lot and been very uneven ground. And you did funny >> things with news periodicals. >> >> (12) Struts 1.3 uses the CoR pattern. Or maybe it's the IoC pattern. >> Or maybe it's the RTFM pattern. Could be the WtF pattern. No one >> knows. (That's another joke... geez, if I have to tell you that I'm >> really not doing a good job, am I?!?) >> >> (13) Wednesday is the new Friday apparently. >> >> (14) C is such a lousy language that NOBODY would EVER use it. Sorry >> Linus, I guess that whole kernel thing of yours was a big mistake. >> Ditto for Windows. Ditto for Halo. Ditto for <insert your favorite >> COTS piece of software here more than likely>. C++ is C with MORE >> chances to blow your foot off. Again, if you suck. Conclusion: >> everything should be written in Logo. I dare say no one has ever >> written a buggy, insecure piece of software in Logo. Better Logo than >> actually knowing what your doing. God forbid. >> >> (15) Everyone has an opinion, No one is afraid to use it. This, >> interestingly enough, is the exact opposite of nuclear weapons: few have >> them, everyone is afraid to use them! >> >> (16) If you ever have a philosophy final where the assignment is simply >> to prove that the chair in the middle of the room exists, write "What >> chair??" in the middle of the paper, hand it in and walk out. Rejoice >> in your 5-seconds A+. >> >> Ok, I'm done. I got a kid bugging me to play Area 51. Time to get my >> butt kicked. >> >> Frank >> >> >> Rahul Akolkar wrote: >> > Allow me to define a new marker (Way, ) times 3 OT. I have left OT in >> > for existing filters. >> > >> > -Rahul >> > >> > P.S.- >> > 1) I suspect this is how DJ went to programming school [ >> > http://www.bedlam.syol.com/ascendin.jpg ]* >> > 2) You can convince the peasant Leon, given gas prices [ >> > http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/images/v22/i4/p53_tractor.jpg >> > ]* >> > >> > *[All images copyright respective websites ] >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Frank W. 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