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jep
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response 25 of 58:
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Jan 11 04:32 UTC 2004 |
re resp:22: Valerie is a professional programmer, and her script
reflects that.
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tod
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response 26 of 58:
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Jan 11 14:56 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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jep
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response 27 of 58:
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Jan 11 17:30 UTC 2004 |
Uh huh.
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janc
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response 28 of 58:
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Jan 11 17:42 UTC 2004 |
Re: yapp. Fairwitnesses in Yapp can be given in either of two formats.
Login ID alone, as in Picospan, or login plus uid number. The former
is for backward compatibility. The latter option has existed in the
code since almost the first release. It's possible that the cfadms on
M-Net don't know it are are entering fairwitnesses in the old format.
Valerie wrote her script in an evening. She's a good programmer and
though I haven't looked at it, I'm sure it's pretty well done. But
something could be written that would run much faster, even on the
stunningly slow Grex computer. It would take much more than an evening
to really do it well. I could do a pretty good job in an evening
because I have the backtalk code base to work off of.
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naftee
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response 29 of 58:
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Jan 11 20:38 UTC 2004 |
re 25 I've seen tonnes of scripts written by "professionals" which were TRUE
hacked-up jobs and not user friendly at all.
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janc
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response 30 of 58:
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Jan 12 01:26 UTC 2004 |
The world is well supplied with bad programmers. Valerie is not one of
them.
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ryan
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response 31 of 58:
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Jan 12 02:27 UTC 2004 |
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naftee
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response 32 of 58:
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Jan 12 05:55 UTC 2004 |
Guys, user-friendly is not the same as documenting your code.
Incidentally, valerie's script has practically no documentation!
Unless of course your idea of a good programmer is one who puts lots of
instructions but practically no comments.
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gelinas
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response 33 of 58:
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Jan 12 05:58 UTC 2004 |
"Good programmers debug code, not comments."
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naftee
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response 34 of 58:
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Jan 12 06:04 UTC 2004 |
valerie may be a good programmer, but it sure takes a kick in the ass to get
her going.
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gull
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response 35 of 58:
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Jan 12 16:07 UTC 2004 |
Comments are there for maintainability. I don't think valerie plans on
maintaining this script.
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naftee
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response 36 of 58:
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Jan 12 16:20 UTC 2004 |
She should, since it's been her first project in several years.
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janc
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response 37 of 58:
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Jan 12 20:17 UTC 2004 |
Valerie writes programs every day.
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naftee
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response 38 of 58:
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Jan 12 23:27 UTC 2004 |
Yes sir, programs, but not "projects", as in the Borland sense.
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gelinas
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response 39 of 58:
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Jan 13 03:37 UTC 2004 |
naftee, you've not idea what Valerie does for a living. Stop displaying your
ignorance.
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naftee
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response 40 of 58:
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Jan 13 04:31 UTC 2004 |
If you're saying that what Valerie does for a living is completely unrelated
to what it says on her website, then I'd have to agree.
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remmers
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response 41 of 58:
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Jan 13 12:23 UTC 2004 |
I have no idea what naftee is talking about. In any case, I looked at
Valerie's scribble script. It's a nice piece of Perl code, clear and
well-written, with about the right amount of comments. If it's decided
to restore the divorce items sans jep's responses, the script will make
the process a whole lot easier than it otherwise would be.
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remmers
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response 42 of 58:
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Jan 13 12:36 UTC 2004 |
(Assuming that they're still available somewhere in raw Picospan format,
that is. If not, restoration gets a little more complicated.)
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jp2
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response 43 of 58:
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Jan 13 13:46 UTC 2004 |
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remmers
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response 44 of 58:
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Jan 13 18:13 UTC 2004 |
It's not the WHOLE idea, but you're probably correct.
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tod
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response 45 of 58:
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Jan 13 20:58 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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naftee
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response 46 of 58:
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Jan 13 22:14 UTC 2004 |
Valerie actually makes PERL look not ugly. But I'd say beautification is art,
not realy programming.
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tod
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response 47 of 58:
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Jan 13 23:47 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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naftee
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response 48 of 58:
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Jan 14 14:29 UTC 2004 |
it's.
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styles
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response 49 of 58:
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Jan 17 01:15 UTC 2004 |
you're
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