From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: You might enjoy this In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:29:25 MDT." <14ec7b180706051129w28dcb8efy55e55eba65ec6ca6@mail.gmail.com> From: Bakul Shah Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 11:55:18 -0700 Message-Id: <20070605185518.B739A5B58@mail.bitblocks.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 78d3d792-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Here is a choice sentence from this paper: A BIG BALL OF MUD is haphazardly structured, sprawling, sloppy, duct-tape and bailing wire, spaghetti code jungle I can't figure out the pattern he used to generate this but I do think this is entirely unfair to a big ball of mud, duct tape, baling wire, spaghetti and jungle. Doesn't everyone know most modern s/w is like a Rube Goldberg contraption?