21 Nov
2011
21 Nov
'11
9:40 p.m.
On 21/11/11 6:23 PM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
From: "Chuck Guzis"; Monday, November 21,
2011 10:27 AM
It's always amusing to see the reactions to that link. This is one type
that invariably pops up.
I'd rather see Quad's lecture on complex numbers than the usual
uncommented, buggy, over-verbose, fragile and tortured code. At least it
shows that the author has seriously studied and understood something.
--Toby
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