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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:31:20 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] quote o' the day
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It's this kind of intellectual ugliness that makes the
teacher in me hang my head in shame.  How could
we be managing to produce a whole generation of
programmers who actually buy into that stuff?  And
it's not as if it's a fad that's getting better.  If anything
it's getting worse.  Somehow we've made it laudible
to go to any lengths to avoid writing a line of real
code and to run as far away from hardware as we
can.  That and worship at the alter of "code reuse"
have created a world where if one abstraction is
good, then 432 must be better.  If a symbol appears
that's not defined in 17 different places all surrounded
by #ifdef's, then that's not "professional."  Everyone
is afraid to point out the nudity of the XML monarch
for fear of being branded as one afraid of change.

I humbly extend my apologies for any of this that
might have been promulgated by any of my former
students :(

\end{soapbox}

BLS