It still happens because its still goddamn funny.. and people still respond. Cheap entertainment: toss back a few pints and start reading BSD threads - you will laugh yourself out of your chair from the sheer silliness.
Now I'm off to search the newsgroups for a good flame fest to read.
Exactly! That's why I listen to metal. I swear there's not a good looking one in the bunch.
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> What will you complain about next? Having to use squiggly brackets in C? how could you complain about squiggly brackets in C and languages with significant whitespace at the same time?
seriously, a lot of people (including me) think languages that use braces are more readable than those that use significant whitespace such as VB. Perhaps we are just used to it, or perhaps the squiggly is the visual key to unlock our latent modularity..
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It still happens because its still goddamn funny.. and people still respond. Cheap entertainment: toss back a few pints and start reading BSD threads - you will laugh yourself out of your chair from the sheer silliness.
Now I'm off to search the newsgroups for a good flame fest to read.
The proper use of the phrase is worth your "mettle" not "metal."
unless you're a headbanger.. in that case 'worth your metal' could be interpreted as 'are you a fucking poseur?'
Exactly! That's why I listen to metal. I swear there's not a good looking one in the bunch.
> What will you complain about next? Having to use squiggly brackets in C?
how could you complain about squiggly brackets in C and languages with significant whitespace at the same time?
seriously, a lot of people (including me) think languages that use braces are more readable than those that use significant whitespace such as VB. Perhaps we are just used to it, or perhaps the squiggly is the visual key to unlock our latent modularity..