21 Nov
2011
21 Nov
'11
3:23 p.m.
From: "Chuck Guzis"; Monday, November 21, 2011 10:27 AM
Consider the fellow who's devised his own
allocation algorithms using
a Fibonacci series introducing his narrative with "Lieber Leser".
Or the fellow who, in his buffer-management scheme makes reference to
"guru beads". Or the database author who talks about quipus. When
the same fellow was writing proposal text, he was equally engaging.
This kind of thing is actually a peeve of mine. I have nothing against
learning a little German, find quipus mildly interesting, etc. But there
is a time and place for such stuff, and it's *not* in the middle of trying
to understand and debug someone else's code! This kind of stuff just
comes off as a snotty "I know more than you do". (I'm not sure I have
any use at all for guru beads.)
Vince