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Strange hearing a non-programmer read a technical blog post like a page out of a novel. http://hearablog.com/post/122/MicroISV-on-a-Shoestring-Practical-Metapr
by KevBurnsJr 17y ago
Strange hearing a non-programmer read a technical blog post like a page out of a novel.
http://hearablog.com/post/122/MicroISV-on-a-Shoestring-Practical-Metaprogramming-with-Ruby-Storing-Preferences.mp3 http://hearablog.com/post/122/MicroISV-on-a-Shoestring-Pract...
"Lets see...
print underscore jobs dot options dot find underscore or
underscore create underscore bind underscore name
parenthesis quotation marks foo quotation marks end
perenthesis dot value equals quotation marks bar end
quotation marks
...oughta do it."
- patio11 17y agoMy authorial intent with the example was to make the syntax sound long and arduous. Listening to him read it aloud was physically painful for me. Mission accomplished. (I can't do justice to his delivery in print, but take it from me, it was pretty good. You can hear the boredom start to creep into his voice, he starts going a little faster, has just a crust of a pause at the ellipses, and then goes for droll irony afterwards.)