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Anger as a Software Design Philosophy

Posted by michael on from the soundproof-cubicle dept.

Chilliwilli writes "Spending more time cursing your code than writing it? Well now there's an answer. feckfeck (a language in the vein of Whitespace and Brainf*ck) will help you get back that precious time by converting your foul words into code. You've heard the hype surrounding VLIWs, well here are FLIWs (4 letter instruction words). The great thing is the more angry you get the more code you'll write. For those programmers on performance related pay this is great news."

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  1. Strange philosophy by melted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A little bit of thinking when developing the code and you'll never have to curse it. Quantity is not the main thing here, quality is.

  2. Re:I've got a secret...anyone else do this? by Des+Herriott · · Score: 2, Interesting

    True story: Someone at a company I used to work for did this a lot. He'd add comments like 'puts("fucked up");' in sections of code that shouldn't have been reached at a certain time, for example. All well and good, until a tape of the software was cut and sent to a customer, complete with extra debugging... Customer ran the software, to be greeted with an endlessly scrolling screen of "fucked up".

    Said employee was terminated shortly afterwards.