🚀 go-pugleaf

I am having FUN...  I wonder if it's NET FUN or GROSS FUN?

>>>>> "marcoxa" == Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@mosaic.nyu.edu> writes:

    > The same kind of people you are mentioning have learned and
    > wrote zillions of lines of junky code in so-called macro
    > languages like 123 and Excel. They "get the job done" but it
    > does not mean that they would have written the same zillions of
    > lines of junk code in a different language.

I recall one time I had to write a rather complex database manager.
Fine, no prob, it wasn't anything elaborate, just a lot of code.

Until the client told me he wanted it in 123.

"So that other people who don't know C can modify it."  I wrote the
silly thing as structured as I could.  It ended up looking like a
horrid cross between 123, Pascal and old-school BASIC that never
should have lived.  It ended up being something that only somebody who
understands both structured and unstructured programming could
decipher.  A pain to construct, horrific to maintain, this monstrosity
should never have seen the light of day.

I *never* want to see anything like that become the *norm*.
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