Posted by ^reaper^ on 07/10/05 18:37

While sipping absinthe, VK heard a loud sucking noise coming from alt.2600,
and hastily inscribed the following unintelligible Sanskrit in
<news:1120922794.651763.162960@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:

> If directed by an impulse I may break a glass in a shop on a dark
> street, and I still *have* my chance to grab what I need and run away.
> I would be a fool to think though that a successfull attemt creates a
> rule of any kind (like "no matter what, I will always run away before
> the police comes").
>
> JavaScript is one of darkest streets of the programming, meanning that
> the police (browser failure) comes only in the case of a real murder
> (you're going beyond any acceptable coding). But it doesn't mean that
> you have to break the glasses all along the street until you hear the
> police syrenes.
>
> eval() (and many other features in JavaScript) are kept to accomodate
> the lecacy bizarrities, *not* to produce new ones.
>
> There is such great thing as "programming culture", and you should
> follow it. If you are really interested, I'm ready to give you some
> public lessons of it.
>
> P.S. All of the above not to Richard Cornford of course, but to his OP.

Very nice rant. Though, your analogy is about as horrid as my example code
snippet. As far as 'programming culture' goes is that some sort of sheeple
thing? I'm all ears... erm... eyes. o_O

--
"There is no such thing as chance, only patterns we do not understand." --
Harlan Ellison

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