From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 11:04:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A1616A4D6 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:04:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from www6.web2010.com (www6.web2010.com [216.157.5.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE4E43D39 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:04:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from MLandman@face2interface.com) Received: from delliver.face2interface.com (dialup-wash-129-203.thebiz.net [64.30.129.203] (may be forged)) by www6.web2010.com (8.12.10/8.9.0) with ESMTP id i02J3XcN018371; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:03:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.0.20040102135914.0205fb80@pop.face2interface.com> X-Sender: face@pop.face2interface.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:04:12 -0500 To: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen), Darren Henderson From: Marty Landman In-Reply-To: References: <200401020747.i027lXj4008818@dyson.jdyson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gratuitious controversy isn't a good thing!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:04:20 -0000 At 01:41 PM 1/2/2004, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >It's as much about the perquisites of developers as about PC-ness. >The peculiar tastes of some developers is tolerated as thanks for their >work or at least to help keep them happy. Brings to mind a mainframe system I once helped install, written by vendors in California. A particular piece of code I worked with contained such lines as Mesa: if sunset go to lasso; Pretty nutty stuff that somebody apparently got a kick out of writing. Wish they'd written all that shite up as pseudocode and put it in a comment block instead though. Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml