Re: Confessions of a terrible programmer

2013-09-16 Thread rusi
On Friday, September 6, 2013 10:26:07 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Not specifically about Python, but still relevant: > > http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-programmer.html Nice post -- thanks! Prompted this from me http://blog.languager.org/2013/09/poor

Re: Confessions of a terrible programmer

2013-09-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:17:20 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> Not specifically about Python, but still relevant: >> >> http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible- programmer.html > Pardon me, but I completely don

Re: Confessions of a terrible programmer

2013-09-06 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> Not specifically about Python, but still relevant: >> >> http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-programmer.html >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Steven >> -- >>

Re: Confessions of a terrible programmer

2013-09-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Pardon me, but I completely don't get this article. Let me in on what > is supposed to be the joke please! I don't really think there's a joke. I think the author is saying in a somewhat sly way is that often, the difference between a terrible programmer and a great programmer is the discipline

Confessions of a terrible programmer

2013-09-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Not specifically about Python, but still relevant: http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-programmer.html -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Confessions of a terrible programmer

2013-09-06 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/6/2013 12:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Not specifically about Python, but still relevant: to what? http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-programmer.html I think link posts should have at least a sentence summarizing the content of the linked page so I wo

Re: Confessions of a terrible programmer

2013-09-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:17:20 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> Not specifically about Python, but still relevant: >> >> http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible- programmer.html > > Pardon me, but I completely d

Re: Confessions of a terrible programmer

2013-09-06 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Not specifically about Python, but still relevant: > > http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-programmer.html > > > > > > -- > Steven > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list Pardon me, but I