Re: Software Precepts

On 2024-03-20, Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:

Software Precepts
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* Specifications are for the weak and timid!
* You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you
  stand!
* Indentation?! - I will show you how to indent when I indent your
  skull!
* What is this talk of 'release'? We do not make software
  'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of
  designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
* Our function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments'
  - and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
* Debugging? We do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
* A TRUE programmer does not comment on their code!
* Our software does NOT have BUGS. It has FEATURES, and those
  features are too sophisticated for one such as you to understand.
* Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it!
  Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
Based on: <https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/precepts>

I saw on Slashdot once: "I refuse to comment code. It was hard to write,
it should be hard to read."  LOL.

This was fun, very good stuff.  Especially software "escaping."