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"If by C programming, you mean writing unreadable code with memory leaks that is impossible to support and violently breaks in unpredictable ways, then I am aga
by mathattack 14y ago
"If by C programming, you mean writing unreadable code with memory leaks that is impossible to support and violently breaks in unpredictable ways, then I am against it.
If by C programming, you mean writing elegant code that dances with the machine producing blazing code, optimized to the technology and problem at hand, then I am for it.
This is my stand. I will not compromise."
I really hate to say it, but I haven't seen this if-by-whiskey technique so formally named, but it does give me great insight into political double-speak. And perhaps it'll give me a few outs from tough situations. :-)
- Dylan16807 14y agoOn the other hand you made an example that was accidentally valid. The axis of good/bad code exists independent of language. But there is no such thing is good/bad (morally) casks of whiskey. Get to work strongly implying that C is the actual cause of all these things with no externalities, and then you get toward the fallacy.
- criley 14y ago>there is no such thing is good/bad (morally) casks of whiskey. I disagree -- just as someone writing C can do it well or poorly, someone drinking whiskey can behave well or poorly. The spectrum of drunken behavior is a big one, and does include moral and immoral activity...
- Dylan16807 14y agoThat is the drinkER, not the drink. mathattack was focusing on the programming language. To parallel the whiskey morals they need to focus on the act of programming, or on the programmer. Not the language.
- mathattack 14y agoI interpreted it as more of a longwinded way to take both sides of an issue to not anger either side. C programming seemed less controversial than something like guns or abortion, but perhaps not around here. :-)
- reissbaker 14y agoReally it's the programmER that writes the memory leaks, too.
- javert 14y agoI think that's what he was trying to say.
- MaysonL 14y agoDepends on who's drinking the whiskey.
- mathattack 14y agoActually with whiskey I am more than willing to take a one sided opinion. :-)