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From: "Michael Kjörling" <e5655f30a07f@ewoof.net>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives?
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:54:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e7aed8b-30c6-4704-8fbf-4faee5a48a79@home.arpa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B50885BE-FD1D-484E-B260-8913049CC5ED@gmail.com>

On 11 Dec 2022 10:18 -0700, from athornton@gmail.com (Adam Thornton):
> The funny thing about that...the project spanned the July 4th
> weekend. I didn't get it working before the 4th. Then when I went in
> very hungover after the weekend, I couldn't figure out quite what I
> had been trying to do, because it was something that was attempting
> to be very clever. So in my dulled state, I rewrote the bottom
> layers to be much more straightforward. Worked the first time. That
> taught me the virtue of not overthinking it.

By definition, if you write code as cleverly as you can, then you
aren't clever enough to debug it...

There's something to be said for simplicity unless for some reason you
really need to be clever. Let's save the clever for the, say, 1% where
it's actually needed; premature application of cleverness is the root
of much evil.

-- 
✍  Michael Kjörling                  🏡 https://michael.kjorling.se
“Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-11 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-10 19:38 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-11  0:22 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2022-12-11  2:37   ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-11 13:59   ` Michael Kjörling
2022-12-11 14:28     ` Steve Nickolas
2022-12-11 15:04       ` Dan Cross
2022-12-13  1:54         ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11 17:18     ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-11 18:54       ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
2022-12-11 19:55         ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-11 20:03           ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11 23:22             ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-12  2:15             ` [TUHS] Clever code (was " Bakul Shah
2022-12-12  2:44               ` [TUHS] " Steve Nickolas
2022-12-12  3:09               ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-12  3:34                 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-12  5:00                   ` Kevin Bowling
2022-12-12  5:26                   ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-12 15:02                     ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-12 15:29                     ` Clem Cole
2022-12-12 15:39                       ` Dan Cross
2022-12-12 16:04                       ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-12 16:26                         ` Clem Cole
2022-12-12 22:20                         ` Liam Proven
2022-12-12 23:10                           ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-12 23:24                             ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-13  2:00                       ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-13 13:37                         ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-13 23:00                           ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-14  1:05                             ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-14  1:40                               ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-14  6:32                                 ` Rich Morin
2022-12-14  2:01                               ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-14  7:49                                 ` arnold
2022-12-14 11:54                                   ` Brad Spencer
2022-12-14 12:08                                     ` [TUHS] Re: (TUHS -> COFF?) Re: Clever code Michael Kjörling
2022-12-14 15:14                                     ` [TUHS] Microware's OS-9 (was: Clever code) G. Branden Robinson
2022-12-14 22:41                                       ` [TUHS] " John Cowan
2022-12-14  9:46                               ` [TUHS] Re: Clever code (was Re: Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives? Harald Arnesen
2022-12-15 18:33                                 ` Liam Proven
2022-12-16 10:42                                   ` Harald Arnesen
2022-12-18 14:05                                     ` Liam Proven
2022-12-18 15:08                                       ` Stuff Received
2022-12-19 11:47                                         ` Liam Proven
2022-12-20  8:30                                       ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-20 11:57                                         ` Liam Proven
2022-12-15  0:29                 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-15  2:54                   ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-15  5:36                     ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-15 14:02                       ` Dan Cross
2022-12-15 14:06                         ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-15 14:18                           ` Dan Cross
2022-12-15 14:02                       ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-15  8:01                     ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-12  9:48               ` [TUHS] Re: Clever code Michael Kjörling
2022-12-12 21:34             ` [TUHS] Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives? Dave Horsfall
2022-12-12 21:46               ` Chet Ramey
2022-12-11  0:42 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2022-12-11  2:16 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11  2:26   ` Warner Losh
2022-12-11  2:32     ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11  2:33       ` Warner Losh
2022-12-11  2:39         ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11  2:49           ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-11  3:10           ` Phil Budne
2022-12-11  4:17           ` Dan Cross
2022-12-11  4:45             ` Will Senn
2022-12-12 17:06           ` Doug McIntyre
2022-12-12 17:42 Nelson H. F. Beebe

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