программистское

глядя на индусов, производящих неимоверное количество бессмысленного кода в день, как-то по-новому воспринимаешь термин "strong typing".

металинк

Спольский публикует список of best software writing 2004.

несколько цитат:

- You might find a Mexican restaurant and an Italian restaurant on the same block! (прикол доступен ню-ёркцам и приближённым к)

- A good team leader provides inspiration by setting a positive example. What the eff? (прикол доступен тим лидерам и их приближённым)

- If I have to read another 2000 page book about some class library written by 16 separate people in broken ESL, I’m going to flip out.

Style is Substance

Programs that use any new features should be required to be in K&R style or be rejected by the compiler as syntactically illegal.

I'm gonna pause here. When I was talking about this on a mailing list I had to go through this several times. People didn't quite get me because they didn't quite believe someone was saying this. I mean this quite literally. For example, I want the next C grammar to define that a space comes between any keyword and an opening parenthesis. "if (foo)" would be legal, but "if(foo)" would not. Not a warning, not optionally checked, but actually forbidden by the language parser. Flat out illegal. Can't compile.

отличная статья! продолжаю читать из спольского списка.

on ms search

http://www.secretgeek.net/ms_search.asp

So you'd like to search for something! Do you know where you last saw it? Yes or No Is it bigger than a breadbox? Or smaller Is it animal, mineral or vegetable? Maybe you should buy a personal organiser! Then you won't keep losing things. Did you check under the bed? ©2004 Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages

incivility of the discourse

и рядом с этим Спольский помещает статью содержащую лексику выражения типа incivility of the discourse? What the eff?