OT: Crazy Programming

[Steve Holden]

"Jacob Hallén" <jacob at boris.cd.chalmers.se.cd.chalmers.se> wrote ...
> In article <23891c90.0205160610.2f7f22c0 at posting.google.com>,
> Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.net> wrote:
> >I can understand people believing that the expression of concepts
> >through a written language can be regarded as literature, but
> >programming languages are somewhat different from natural languages,
> >and it is certainly dubious to want to replicate certain parts of
> >natural languages in computer languages. "Sorry your program didn't do
> >what was expected of it - there's some use of double-entendre in the
> >code, which I thought would make the program much more amusing to
> >read."
>
> The baroque went out of fashion over 200 years ago. Art is not merely
> decorative and for amusement.
>

This hasn't stopped some pretty baroque architectures being designed for
software systems. In my experience, the more baroque the architecture the
less experienced the designer (which is why I sometimes disparagingly refer
to microsoft systems as being written by recent graduates. We all have to
learn somehow ;-)

regards
 Steve
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