There's a level of Hell reserved for
- people who think that coolness is more important than stability
- people who use prototypes on methods as a gotcha for procedural calls
- people in the Perl community who don't care if their software works/builds on MS machines
- people who think that users should learn cryptic CLI interfaces when they don't even have time to learn simple GUI's
- programmers that take weeks to write a GUI that reproduces the behaviour of a common CLI tool or a Perl one liner and then expect you to be impressed
- those who can't accept that VB is an excellent GUI development tool
- those who can't see that theres more to do in programming than making sure that their VB data grid looks cool.
- those that only know VB
- every MS excec that voted 'no' on maintaining good links with the Open Source Community
- people who don't use source control
- coworkers who don't answer emails in a reasonably prompt fashion
- people who use M$ as a way to put down Microsoft Products, but whose experience of the same is limited to 9x/Me or even worse DOS
- users who think "it doesnt work" is a good error description, even though the bug report form has countless hints to provide more useful information
- those who think that all phone numbers are in (XXX)YYY-ZZZZ format.
- web site developers that think that the only two countries in the world are "USA" and "CAN"
- web site developers that think that the only two countries in the world with states are "USA" and "CAN"
- people who think that if an OS doesn't do something the same way as *NIX does, that the OS must be violating some standard
- whoever was responsible for the fact that even though the world pretty much universally uses arabic numerals, we can't settle on just one symbol for the decimal point
- everyone who thinks that YY/MM/DD or MM/DD/YY or DD/MM/YY or pretty well anything other than YYYY/MM/DD is a sane way to write a readable date stamp
- for every person who says "we can't do that, we've never done it before"
- who --'d you without a good reason ;-)
- people who think that they should endlessly profit from a lucky few years of intellectual activity when whatever they built was only on the shoulders of countless unsung others before them
- people who dont document their code
- people who don't read the documentation
- people who write useless documentation
- comments that lie
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