Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break.
“programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more.”
Where does maintaining a 25MB perl script fall into.
Documentation should be larger than code.
Tests as well.
Tests as well.
In most programming languages, yes.
In Ruby? …eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh.
Where does “Suddenly realizing why they call it DLL hell” fall on the scale?
the tests are now larger than the thing itself
The purpose of the code is to make the tests pass.
I miss why… he was what everyone really needed, and the industry destroyed him. I haven’t seen anyone like him since.
