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I’m sorry the code you produced made you so unhappy EDIT: verb tense changed
by peteretep 5y ago
I’m sorry the code you produced made you so unhappy
EDIT: verb tense changed
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoAny particular reason for the insult? I don't recall saying anything bad to you.
- danielheath 5y agoJust a wild guess, but perhaps they read your hyperbole literally?
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoI doubt it. I looked them up (because I care about people, and don't actually want to hurt them), and it seems that Perl is a big part of their repertoire. Perl means a lot to them, and my flippant comment was probably taken as "calling their baby ugly." So, @peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable CGI code. I took the time to learn it, and got fairly good at it. Since then, I have found my muse in other languages, but I sincerely did not want to give offense. I doubt that deleting the comment would help.
- peteretep 5y agoYou said you wrote some code, and the memory of it makes you still wake up screaming. What’s the alleged insult, exactly?
- GavinMcG 5y agoThe deliberate misinterpretation is just a style of humor.
- chrisseaton 5y agoWhy do people post nasty things like this?
- h2odragon 5y agoSome of us are veterans of the time when Perl was evangelized as the cure for everything, and the only way to sensibly think about unix programming. That led to the usual over-reaction from Perl critics and it became usual to make sharper comments about it even when you'd never used Perl. Which all goes to show people clot up into tribes over any silly thing; and that its better not to wrap your identity too much around your tools.
- mnw21cam 5y ago? What is nasty about that?
- Macha 5y agoAlmost certainly has been edited? Now I wonder what the original post was.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoNah. Wasn't edited, but it was definitely a slap at me, personally. I touched a nerve, and was reprimanded. It was not a "fun" response, and it made me realize that I had caused offense. Teh Internets tubes are a difficult landscape to navigate. It's almost impossible to write stuff without causing some offense. Some folks take that as an admonition to never write anything fun. Others (like me) learn to apologize. I'm fairly good at apologizing, as I need to do it so often. Each time, I learn to ameliorate my approach. But I'll never stop posting in a humorous way.
- yarcob 5y agoI don't see any need to apologise for what's clearly meant as a lighthearted joke. Just don't complain when someone comes up with a clever comeback :)
- LandR 5y agoDon't take attacks on a tool you like as an attack on you. This is rarely ever the intention, and I'm 100% certain wasn't the intention of the poster here. The tools you use shouldn't be your identity. Chill.
- blacktriangle 5y agoCan we get a bot that automatically posts what you just said in every thread about k8s and Rust?
- peteretep 5y agoOne person’s tool is another person’s livelihood, the corner stone of their professional experience, and the basis by which other people will (apparently) judge their technical expertise
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoExactly. I feel your pain. I write software for Apple systems. It’s modern, high-quality code, but it’s for Apple. There are people that have never met me, and have never had any prior interactions with me, that hate (and that’s not hyperbole) me; simply because of that one fact. I’m constantly reading stuff about Apple, and people that use/like/support/develop for Apple, that is intentionally insulting and demeaning. I should know better, and wish you nothing but the best. Perl is a language easy to learn, and difficult to master. You have my sincere respect.
- hereforphone 5y agoPerl scripts look like piles of vomit to me
- caffeine 5y agoWas this edited? I don’t see why anyone is reading this comment as rude or offensive … Seems fine. He’s basically ribbing GP by purposefully misinterpreting the comment, so that what gave GP nightmares was his CMS rather than Perl itself.
- peteretep 5y agoYes, sorry, I edited it to change it from present tense to past tense, as that was more in line with my meaning
- vultour 5y agoIt's 2021, stop writing legacy code that others will have to maintain.
- jamesbfb 5y agoThis made me laugh more than it should have.