Obtuse code was Re: [ale] Ernie Ball says F.Y.

[Christopher Fowler]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:41:48AM -0400, Christopher Ness wrote:
> On Saturday 23 August 2003 01:54 pm, Jim Philips wrote:
> 
> > The other problem that many open source Linux programmers often have is
> > that they can't resist the temtptation to do something obscure. Example:
> >
> >
> > Xmonkey--programmed entirely in the doohickey programming language. For
> > those not familiar with doohickey, it does all of the same things that
> > you can do in C and C++ (but that wouldn't be any fun). Along with
> > doohickey, you will need the doohickey-Gtk bindings, version 1.9210976
> > or higher. You can build Xmonkey without installing doohickey-xml2, but
> > you will lose 80% of the functionality. Before installing doohickey,
> > please install any 12 of my favorite CPAN modules. You must also install
> > the sdfhjg libraries (which haven't been updated since 1999). These may
> > require you to downgrade your existing glibs and clibs, but no
> > biggie...and so on.


This is only when the programmer loves using abstractions.  What is
horrible is downloading a nifty perl app on freshmeat only to
find out that you need to install 300 perl modules.  Then you have to
hope that your new disti that was released 3 days ago can compile them
all.  
_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale