Re: Top ten trolls.

From: Paul Cardinale (pcardinale_at_volcanomail.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: 23 Sep 2004 12:26:01 -0700

"Greysky" <greyskynospam@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<OGp4d.18406$QJ3.6238@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>...
> "Paul Cardinale" <pcardinale@volcanomail.com> wrote in message
> news:64050551.0409221446.a3242a3@posting.google.com...
> > Jeff Relf <Usenet_2_@JeffRelf.Cotse.NET> wrote in message
> > news:<_Jeff_Relf_2004_Sep_22_JVSy@Cotse.NET>...
> >> Here are the top ten trolls,
> >> ranked by the number of direct replies received
> >> ( the number on left ) as collected by my X program,
> >> http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/X.CPP.
> >
> > I feel sorry for anyone who hires you to write software, and even more
> > so for anyone who has to maintain it.
> >
> > Paul Cardinale
>
> Hey, don't say anything bad about 'spaghetti code'. I write stuff much,
> much worse than this on purpose. I even take a look at the finished product
> and say to myself : "What other stuff can I put in this program to make it a
> miserable, painful, experience for anyone with a life to deal with?" Then I
> put in some more spaghetti. If anyone could maintain, or even easily
> understand what I did, then I consider it a personal failure. If you want
> someone else to completely rewrite a new program 20 years from now, then I
> figure I've done my part to provide employment to the next generation that
> is currently in diapers.

I'm not surprised that you consider gross incompetance to be a virtue.

Paul Cardinale

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