Re^3: Don't Write That In Perl!

[Cop]

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[Ovid]

Once again, you're an idiot. He not only writes good and maintainable code, but he's also in high demand. Many companies would love to hire him and when he was hired at a company I worked at, he definitely showed his worth.

But here's the real kicker: you can go out and read his code. You can go out and read his books. You can go out and read his articles. You can go out and evaluate anything about him that's germane to this discussion. You, on the other hand, are a coward. You hide behind your anonymity and show us nothing but insults. Let's see a CV (or resume, if you prefer). Let's see some code. Let's see something which shows that you're more than just a pile of insults.

I doubt you'll do that, though. You're a coward (I'm not usually this harsh, but people aren't usually as both as offensive and as ignorant as you are).

[Fletch]

At this point I'd just like to refer everyone back to this handy technique for making idiots like this go away.

And I think we can all agree that this image would also probably be an appropriate placeholder that sums up whatever it replaces nicely.

[pfaut]

don't be misguided by life and mistreat yourself as a genius.

Projection?

[blazar]

That's exactly what's wrong with you and your alikes. You are not a programmer, but a coder. Good prgrammer writes code and maintainable code, so he can pass things off and move on, because his service is in high demand.

I personally believe, Cop not only that you're showing off as an idiot, which is fair enough given that I'm behaving like that myself all the time, e.g. with this IPB thing which seems to upset so many people, but that you're preventing all sorts of other cranks and clueles n00bz to legitimately show up in the Worst Nodes of The Day list, which is bad. You're stealing the stage all for yourself, and I'm sure that such a good programmer, and a genius as you are may have something far better and more productive, or entertaining to do. Either that, or go and take those damned pills.

[exussum0]

Hi there.

I've never worked with chromatic, nor any one else here. I do know the personalities. I know tye's and chromatic's dry humour. I know of jZed's ways. Hey orby!

Have you worked with chromatic? If so, I'm sorry to hear you've had such a bad time w/ him. I doubt you have though w/ the blanket statement you made, "You and your alikes."

Reminds me back in a position of mine. My cow-orkers and I were chatting about programming, and somehow perl came up. Accused me of not being able to produce a lick of anything useful in perl. A coworker who I've worked with chimed in. Two things were said. "I'm not a bad worker." and "I trust him to write well organized perl." From everything chromatic has written, I believe him to be of that ilk. Do I agree how he organizes, maybe, maybe not. It'd depend on one of the billion of points he's made at the given time.

I know, I know. No one is bashing perl. Or were they? Bah, who knows. Anywho, unless you have worked with him to any extent, I suggest you not critique his work unless you really get into it. Sure, poke at his personality. Tell him that his name is misspelled, and doesn't have a capital letter. Let him know his punctuation is atrocious. If you've only met him, insult his tie, and his shoes.

But c'mmon, insulting his work without ever seeing it? Heck, I don't agree w/ how some things are written. A lot of your other nodes have come off quite negative towards these people you don't know. Most of us are good people. Sit back and get to know us a bit more before you continue posting.

Disclaimer: I've never met or worked with chromatic or met chromatic. If I do meet him and his tie and shoes are ugly, I'll get a good laugh. I think his name is spelled the way HE wants it to. Don't hurt me. :)