ST22

“ There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation. -- Bertrand Meyer ”

“ the clumsiness of people who have to engage their brain at every step is unbearably painful to watch, at least to me, and that's what the novice-friendly software makes people do, because there's no elegance in them, it's just a mass of features to be learned by rote. however, this suits people a hell of a lot better than setting out at age 6 to become a great ballet dancer and achieving their goal 20 years later after every tendon and muscle and joint has been asked to perform just a little bit more than nature ever intended over and over and over again. to most people, this is insanity. but in reality, it's art, and it's the _art_ in what we do that makes us human.

PS!
The small letters at the beginning of his sentences and the two spaces after the dots are a *conscious* choice. He felt that it was easier to read text which had small letters in the beginning of the sentences, and since it was easier to grep text written with two spaces after each dot he did so... ;)
As I said, controversial but brilliant to the last bit... ”

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Civility and politeness are extremely useful tools in communication
with people who are more wrong than right, but of very little use with
people who are vastly more right than wrong.


RIP - Schade, dass ich den verpasst habe... :(

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“ If GML was an infant, SGML is the bright youngster far exceeds expectations and made its parents too proud, but XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rape. ”

“ I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet. ”

“ Today, I came out to my dad. He called me weak minded and said that he has never been more disappointed in me. I didn't come out as gay. I came out as a vegetarian. FML ”