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I hope this becomes a standard part of the “no easter eggs in cURL?!” discourse that makes such frequent appearances on this site. If we must keep discussing it
by awakeasleep 5y ago
I hope this becomes a standard part of the “no easter eggs in cURL?!” discourse that makes such frequent appearances on this site. If we must keep discussing it.
- spicybright 5y agoI see almost no one disagreeing about having no easter eggs in curl on this site.
- ineedasername 5y agoMaybe we can start one up? Here, I'll have a go: "I'm a pro-easter egg ideologue and will tolerate no software that does not contain such silliness, nor should any other rational, stable, intelligent person!" There, now it's your turn.
- auslegung 5y agoYour mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!
- asn1parse 5y agosl
- ineedasername 5y agoI'm not sure how you knew all if that about me, but the accuracy is astonishing! But unless I know your position on Easter eggs then I cannot accurately determine to hate you or not.
- vitiral 5y agoEaster eggs require the easter Bunny. Bunnies don't lay eggs. Therefore easter eggs don't egg-sist. Q.E.D.
- ineedasername 5y agoHmm, I'm not sure we've done this whole "flame war" thing properly. Well, there's always next time.
- bobsmooth 5y agoEaster Eggs are fun. What's life without a little whimsy?
- smoldesu 5y agoLife is what happens between fixing issues caused by other people's "easter eggs"
- spicybright 5y agoAlmost all people love easter eggs, including myself. But having them in heavily used security critical programs like curl is just asking for a heartbleed/log4j/etc type incident.
- spicybright 5y agoImo, if half your programs flags aren't undocumented easter eggs that print witty quotes then you're missing the entire point of computer science.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI still don’t understand this particular discourse. If you’re doing a library, your easter eggs might be cool and you should do them if you feel like it. But they should be out of the path of your documented interfaces.
- xmprt 5y agoEaster eggs are fine if they don't conflict with regular use of the software.
- kabdib 5y agoI've helped put easter eggs into sooo many products. Exhortations from management ("... firing offense") simply made us hide them much, much better. One product I worked on (ahem, no names) we had written an easter egg and hooked it up and everything, then we got cold feet. Not because of any silly rules, but because we realized it truly would have been bad for the product and the company if the egg had caused something to go haywire. We looked at each other, then unanimously decided to remove it. Masking the true purpose of that check-in was actually much harder than hiding the egg to begin with. :-)