From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 22 14:30: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from heechee.tobez.org (254.adsl0.ryv.worldonline.dk [213.237.10.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA23C37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:29:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 755FA543D; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:29:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:29:42 +0200 From: Anton Berezin To: Terry Lambert Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: most complex code in BSD? Message-ID: <20010622232942.A53155@heechee.tobez.org> Mail-Followup-To: Anton Berezin , Terry Lambert , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200106222110.OAA28427@usr06.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106222110.OAA28427@usr06.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:10:03PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:10:03PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > In everyone's opinion, what is the most complex code in the BSD > > > codebase? Not including asm (unless there is an especialy > > > exemplary example of obfuscated code, but it seems compilers are > > > better at that ;-) what code is most likely to turn a newbie's > > > brain to tapioca? > Anything with "perl" code in it: it's a write-only programming > language, useful only for throw-away code. Wow, wow. Opinions are strong here, aren't they? ;-) \Anton. -- You shouldn't be intimidated by this issue at all, since Perl is your friend. -- Apache mod_perl guide To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message