Glotmorf on 29 May 2003 02:38:00 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Nweek 42 BALLOT


On 5/28/03 at 8:04 PM Mark Karasek wrote:

>>> Proposal 1549/0: Pseudocode (The Pusher Robot)
>> NO - Even if this passed, you would still get kicked in the ass every
>> time you did it, because Pseudocode is inherently annoying to anyone who
>> honestly couldn't give a damn about coding. I'd encourage you to declare
>> this fatally flawed.
>
>I don't really see how pseudocode is any more annoying than poetry or song
>form. If anything, it should be easier to understand. (Perl, on the other
>hand, I can understand, and I imagine I'll try and stay away from doing
>that again. After all, God speaks in Perl, so I'm not surprised that some
>mere mortals have difficulty with it ;-) ) Besides, you shouldn't worry,
>it'll fail anyway.

That wasn't quite eir point.  I believe if you declare a proposal to be fatally flawed you don't take the same loss as if it was defeated.

						Glotmorf

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