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LAI
<code>
@hellions = qw |
</code>
<blockquote>
<p>non-programmer project managers who decide on their own how long a project will take and present that as a deadline to their coders.</p>
<p>project managers who insist that you drop your critical modifications to the database structure, or your fix of the memory leak, because the GUI's colour scheme needs to be fixed *now*. </p>
<p>web designers who design a page so badly they force horizontal scrolling </p>
<p>web designers who believe "cross-browser" means compatible with "both" browsers </p>
<p>programmers who believe "cross-platform" means compatible with Win9x and NT/2k </p>
<p>monks who post really long lines of code in a SoPW, forcing me to scroll horizontally. (for instance, a 200-character hex string to be unpacked.)</p>
<p>monks who frontpage really long lines of code in a SoPW, forcing me to scroll horizontally. </p>
<p>all the stupid $@#! users where I work, who turn off their UPSs and wonder why their computers suddenly go dark and won't turn on, who get confused when they see a "You may now safely turn off your computer" message because they don't know where the power button is, much less the reset button. </p>
</blockquote>
<code>
|;
#
# UPDATE: reformatted code and pushed some stuff
push @hellions, qw |
</code>
<blockquote>
<p>programmers who write version checking using <code>==</code> instead of <code>>=</code></p>
<p>programmers who write stuff that's not backwards-compatible, therefore requiring a <code>==</code> version check.</p>
</blockquote>
<code>
|;
# /UPDATE
print '<ul>', map {
"<li>There's a level of Hell reserved for $_.</li>"
} @hellions , '</li>';
</code>
<p>
LAI
<br \>
:eof
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