That's why it's called "The Last Theorem" and a seperate book! Arthur Clarcke had a truly marvellous short story about this Lunar-based sport event which the margin was too narrow to contain.
That's what I mean. It starts off good. A single location for the OS configuration in the registry. But the application configs are all over the place. Or they were a couple years ago (last time I looked). HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT for global stuff and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ for user stuff.
Now that we're talking about 'languages that invite bad coding practices'... Well, one of the best programming books I've read is 'Perl Best Practices'. Not only does it list out best practices but it tries to explain (well I might add) why you should code a certain way and why other ways aren't good to follow.
One of the habits I picked up from 'Perl Best Practices is:
if (condition) { } else { }
instead of:
if (condition) { } else { }
The else tends to get 'lost' when just following the closing bracket.
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looks like a beowulf cluster! Do you think it runs linux?
Little Bobby Tables we call him. His full name is Robert'); DROP Table Students;--
I agree, and... am off to read A Canticle for Leibowitz, again!
That's what SHE said!
That's why it's called "The Last Theorem" and a seperate book! Arthur Clarcke had a truly marvellous short story about this Lunar-based sport event which the margin was too narrow to contain.
People, people! Remember, his job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it!
<shivers>I just had a vision of Steve Ballmer's personality in a female-shaped, chair throwing, machine-powered uber-robot.</shivers>
This being slashdot... Is this the so called Chewbacca defense?
That's Perl, isn't it?
It does, and does not!
It was a soundstage on mars!
I'm more of a 202 or 307 kinda guy :)
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
New Technology!
Precious bodily fluids if I recall correctly!
Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women,
But I... I do deny them my essence.
Indeed, that's why there is a howto available. When you don't do stuff often enough you tend to forget you see :)
That's what I mean. It starts off good. A single location for the OS configuration in the registry. But the application configs are all over the place. Or they were a couple years ago (last time I looked). HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT for global stuff and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ for user stuff.
;)
If your fucking looks pretty neat and tidey you're doing it wrong!
Uhh? What about /etc/
... and a reservation for a table at Milliways!
Ah! A python programmer!
Now that we're talking about 'languages that invite bad coding practices'... Well, one of the best programming books I've read is 'Perl Best Practices'. Not only does it list out best practices but it tries to explain (well I might add) why you should code a certain way and why other ways aren't good to follow.
One of the habits I picked up from 'Perl Best Practices is:
instead of:
The else tends to get 'lost' when just following the closing bracket.
Won't you confuse the future creationists that way?
Been reading GÃdel, Escher, Bach again, have you?
OB. xkcd :)
You're telling us they count all the way up to eleven?