Re: the fastest way to create a directory

From	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject	Re: the fastest way to create a directory
Date	2013-07-19 14:51 +0100
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"Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3@hjp.at> writes:
> On 2013-07-18 20:47, Henry Law <news@lawshouse.org> wrote:
>> On 18/07/13 20:49, Charlton Wilbur wrote:
>>> Thou shalt make thy program's purpose and structure clear to thy fellow
>>> man; for thy creativity is better used in solving problems than in
>>> creating beautiful new impediments to understanding.
>>
>> I like it!  Is that a Charltonism?  Attribution please if not.
>
> It's a slight variation of Henry Spencer's 8th Commandment:

It's a serious abuse of that as the original refers to placement of
braces and indentation:

	Thou shalt make thy program's purpose and structure clear to
	thy fellow man by using the One True Brace Style, even if thou
	likest it not, for thy creativity is better used in solving
	problems than in creating beautiful new impediments to
	understanding.

Ie, it's not about not confusing people who can't read code and don't
understand simple algorithms by placing them into a file A they happen
to look at for some weird reason instead of pulling something similar
in from a file B they're not looking at (for an equally weird
reason).

The applicable commandment would be the seventh:

	Thou shalt study thy libraries and strive not to reinvent them
	without cause, that thy code may be short and readable and thy
	days pleasant and productive.

Something which comes to mind immediately when reading this would be
"Thou shalt not strive to learn how to program lest some people's
undeservedly comfortable retirement might not remain as comfortable as
they'd like it to be". Or mabye "thou shalt not burden thy fellow men
by forcing overly general solutions to simple problems you happen to
have written 600 years ago onto them -- use them enjoying thine
pleasant and productive days and leave others alone unless they ask
YOU for help".

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the fastest way to create a directory George Mpouras <nospam.gravitalsun.noadsplease@hotmail.noads.com> - 2013-07-15 14:09 +0300
  Re: the fastest way to create a directory Henry Law <news@lawshouse.org> - 2013-07-15 15:44 +0100
    Re: the fastest way to create a directory "George Mpouras" <nospam.gravitalsun.antispam@spamno.hotmail.anispam.com.nospam> - 2013-07-15 18:45 +0300
      Re: the fastest way to create a directory Charlton Wilbur <cwilbur@chromatico.net> - 2013-07-15 15:36 -0400
        Re: the fastest way to create a directory "George Mpouras" <nospam.gravitalsun.antispam@spamno.hotmail.anispam.com.nospam> - 2013-07-16 00:07 +0300
      Re: the fastest way to create a directory "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3@hjp.at> - 2013-07-15 23:55 +0200
  Re: the fastest way to create a directory tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2013-07-15 20:27 +0000
    Re: the fastest way to create a directory "George Mpouras" <nospam.gravitalsun.antispam@spamno.hotmail.anispam.com.nospam> - 2013-07-16 00:04 +0300
      Re: the fastest way to create a directory "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3@hjp.at> - 2013-07-16 00:02 +0200
        Re: the fastest way to create a directory "George Mpouras" <nospam.gravitalsun.antispam@spamno.hotmail.anispam.com.nospam> - 2013-07-18 00:16 +0300
      Re: the fastest way to create a directory tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2013-07-15 22:16 +0000
      Re: the fastest way to create a directory Charlton Wilbur <cwilbur@chromatico.net> - 2013-07-18 15:49 -0400
        Re: the fastest way to create a directory Henry Law <news@lawshouse.org> - 2013-07-18 21:47 +0100
          Re: the fastest way to create a directory "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3@hjp.at> - 2013-07-19 15:25 +0200
            Re: the fastest way to create a directory Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-19 14:51 +0100
            Re: the fastest way to create a directory Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2013-07-19 08:39 -0700
          Re: the fastest way to create a directory Charlton Wilbur <cwilbur@chromatico.net> - 2013-07-21 23:19 -0400
            Re: the fastest way to create a directory Henry Law <news@lawshouse.org> - 2013-07-22 07:10 +0100
              Re: the fastest way to create a directory Charlton Wilbur <cwilbur@chromatico.net> - 2013-07-22 17:31 -0400
        Re: the fastest way to create a directory Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-19 16:40 +0100
  Re: the fastest way to create a directory Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-07-15 23:40 +0100
    Re: the fastest way to create a directory "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3@hjp.at> - 2013-07-16 23:44 +0200
      Re: the fastest way to create a directory George Mpouras <nospam.gravitalsun.noadsplease@hotmail.noads.com> - 2013-07-17 11:09 +0300
        Re: the fastest way to create a directory "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3@hjp.at> - 2013-07-17 10:24 +0200
      Re: the fastest way to create a directory George Mpouras <nospam.gravitalsun.noadsplease@hotmail.noads.com> - 2013-07-17 11:10 +0300
      Re: the fastest way to create a directory Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-17 10:49 +0100
        Re: the fastest way to create a directory "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3@hjp.at> - 2013-07-17 22:37 +0200
          Re: the fastest way to create a directory Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-17 22:22 +0100
          Re: the fastest way to create a directory Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-07-19 16:21 +0100
            Re: the fastest way to create a directory "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3@hjp.at> - 2013-07-19 22:11 +0200
        Re: the fastest way to create a directory "George Mpouras" <nospam.gravitalsun.antispam@spamno.hotmail.anispam.com.nospam> - 2013-07-18 00:14 +0300
          Re: the fastest way to create a directory tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2013-07-17 21:21 +0000
          Re: the fastest way to create a directory Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-17 22:31 +0100
            Re: the fastest way to create a directory "George Mpouras" <nospam.gravitalsun.antispam@spamno.hotmail.anispam.com.nospam> - 2013-07-19 00:02 +0300
              Re: the fastest way to create a directory Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-19 10:46 +0100
                Re: the fastest way to create a directory Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-19 10:51 +0100
                Re: the fastest way to create a directory Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-19 12:09 +0100
          Re: the fastest way to create a directory Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2013-07-17 22:37 -0700
            Re: the fastest way to create a directory Justin C <justin.1303@purestblue.com> - 2013-07-18 09:15 +0100
  Re: the fastest way to create a directory "George Mpouras" <nospam.gravitalsun.antispam@spamno.hotmail.anispam.com.nospam> - 2013-07-19 01:01 +0300
    Re: the fastest way to create a directory "George Mpouras" <nospam.gravitalsun.antispam@spamno.hotmail.anispam.com.nospam> - 2013-07-19 01:07 +0300
  Re: the fastest way to create a directory "George Mpouras" <nospam.gravitalsun.antispam@spamno.hotmail.anispam.com.nospam> - 2013-07-23 09:33 +0300

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