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Subject:A Programming Koan
Time:10:24 pm
The mark of the Master is that any Idiot can maintain his code. The mark of an Idiot is that only a Master can do so. Attend this lesson, my son, and be enlightened.
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[info]metahacker
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Time:06:44 am
Unfortunately I think I've been privy to what happens when Idiots maintain Idiot code... :-/
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[info]cellio
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Time:09:07 am
I had the same thought. But I do like the koan!
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[info]vortexofchaos
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Time:09:11 am
I thought that the Mark of the Master was the indentation left by the Clue-by-Four upside the Idiot's head, after too many hours trying to maintain the Idiot's code.
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Time:12:03 pm
I guess that means I've been both an idiot and a master. Sometimes in the same project. :-)
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