Re: Helldesk ticket of the month

In alt.sysadmin.recovery, on Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:06:17 +0200
Michel <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:57:23 -0400, Shmuel Metz wrote:
at 02:06 AM, Jed Davis <jld@xxxxxxxxx> said:
There is boring as in actively inducing boredom, and then there is boring
as in not inducing screaming terror.

Doesn't the latter tend to violate "Clear", "Readable" and "Maintainable"?

That's the idea.

But yeah, I meant boring as opposed to Interesting.cn.

BTW, my idea of clever code is that the person reading it asks himself
"Why didn't I think of that?"; I don't consider "Hey, look at me!"
deliberately obscure code to be clever.

Hence the scare quotes. Too many perl hacks can't seem to get
past the idea that JAPH style code is the epitome of clever
and putting it into production is all fine and dandy.

I still have the scar from fighting to get Quantum::Superpositions removed
from our production codebase on the grounds that 3 uses with about 8 items
in an if (any()) construct should not be showing up a 90% of the CPU usage.
Especially since this application had sha1 hashes of bloody everything and
XML throughout. Anything that can chew an order of magnitude more CPU than
both of them is pretty distinctly suboptimal.

And I got serious pushback on this. Man, so glad to be out of that
situation.

Bron.
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