OIan Osgood <iano@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Jonah Thomas wrote:
> >
> > I did a google search on can't|couldn't read his|their own code.
> >
> ...
> >
> > Sydney Linux User's Group about somebody named Raster
> > http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug-chat/2001/04/index.html#00214
>
> That's particularly amusing. Raster is the author of Enlightenment, a
> windowing and graphics system known for its extremely tight and
> optimized code, such that software rendering paths approach graphics
> hardware speeds. There are also jokes that English is raster's second
> language (after C). Perhaps there is an inverse correlation between
> brilliance and code readability?
It was somebody quoting jokes on Raster. The relevant one went:
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Someone's dream Slashdot poll:
"Raster keeps abandoning and/or rewriting his projects because:
a) He has attention deficit disorder
b) He can't read his own code after 3 months
c) Everybody else can't read his code after 3 months of trying
d) He thought he was making cheesecake
e) He is secretly CowboyNeal"
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If he keeps optimising, of course he'll keep starting over rather than
maintain compatibility with inferior approaches. Kind of like Chuck
does.
