1. Re: A rant on an Ideal languages
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Joel Crook wrote:
> I tend to be a hack and burn kind of programmer. I reserve my "zen states and
> desire" as Steve Mosher put it for the algorithm and hate interface work.
>
I can understand this greatly. Interfaces have nothing to do with
what the program does. Once you're in the algorythm-zen, give it a few
hours, three slices of pizza and two cans of cola. Oh yeah, radiohead,
preferably Karma Police. After that, interfaces should be fine too <grin>.
Seriously, though, interfaces are a pain to write. If you only
needed the program to run once, you would never need an interface. During
the day, when I'm lucid, I loathe writing interfaces, so my alphas (and
many betas) have shoddy interfaces and print out cryptic messages. I don't
really think there's any real solution to this, however. If you want to
make something work, rarely do you want to teach it to speak to humans,
who have thier own ideas. The only thing I've been able to do with this
problem is to put up with it. Although, I prefer to read from .rc files
than from stdin =).
