From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <88f97e5152dcf4de29fa4128d4e4dddc@bellsouth.net> References: <09878a44d12791405e8b8b2bebb140f4@ladd.quanstro.net> <88f97e5152dcf4de29fa4128d4e4dddc@bellsouth.net> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:51:29 +0200 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] quote o' the day Topicbox-Message-UUID: f755ddb0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/25/10, blstuart@bellsouth.net wrote: > 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 > > > Hurts! He wants to know if it hurts!