From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 31 14:45:47 2003 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 2C49016A4CE for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:45:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.blarg.net (zoot.blarg.net [206.124.128.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A7643F75 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:45:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abowhill@blarg.net) Received: from kosmos (dsl-129-176.sea.blarg.net [206.124.129.176]) by mail.blarg.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F10E34534 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by kosmos (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:45:29 -0800 From: "kosmos" Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:45:29 -0800 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031031224529.GA608@dsl-129-176.sea.blarg.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: How do hackers drive? 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, 31 Oct 2003 22:45:47 -0000 >I recently started reading Eric Raymond's _The_Art_of_UNIX_Programming_ and >it's gotten me taking another look at the way I am in general. >Other programmers drive this way as well, correct? You have an argument. Every carload of programmers I have ever been with (particularly C-programmers) can agree on where to go, but it's an issue on the specific route to get there. Usually the dominant programmer wins, and the driver loses. I am in professional training change, Journalism->Programming (a hard, long, math catchup), and if the objective is a 5-minute trip to the store, I find myself meandering aimlessly though the countryside, miles away, looking at the cows and trees. I am of course _thinking_ about math and C++ projects, but that's probably not a good sign. >The revelation is that I'm starting to understand that many non-programmer >_don't_ generally evaluate their car trips like this. Just out of curiosity, how do you think C compares to C++? Or what do you think of OO-languages in general? -- Allan Bowhill Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.