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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] code complexity
Date: Tue,  5 Feb 2002 17:39:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C600AD6.8ABA5729@strakt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37088672ac32055400db1684d3dfae65@plan9.bell-labs.com>

Russ Cox wrote:
> As for why, there certainly exists a small class of programmers
> that actively believes writing complex programs is
> just macho.

Bad programmers build complex stuff because they can and they get
away with it most of the time, until it all comes crashing down.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-05 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-05 16:34 Russ Cox
2002-02-05 16:39 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2002-02-05 16:42   ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-02-05 17:20     ` david presotto
2002-02-05 23:06       ` Steve Kilbane
2002-02-05 20:24 ` philw
2002-02-06  1:01   ` ozan s yigit
2002-02-05 22:28 ` Dan Cross
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-06  0:10 [9fans] XP (was: code complexity) geoff
2002-02-06  0:29 ` [9fans] code complexity George Michaelson
2002-02-06 10:47   ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-06 20:49     ` Andrew Simmons
2002-02-05 16:41 Russ Cox
2002-02-05 14:24 Richard Uhtenwoldt
2002-02-05 14:47 ` Matt H

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