Use of first person in a book [OT tangent]

[Jeremie Pelletier]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.159.1255130283.20261.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:35AM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Humourous typo: Near the last page "online assembler" should be "inline
>>>> assembler". Thought it's true that online asm is forbidden too...
>>> Ha ha, now that's some involuntary humor. Thanks, Don! Also thanks for
>>> the patches that make the code in the book work :o).
>> Off topic, but one day a few years back, I did a quick hello world CGI
>> program in assembly just for laughs: http://arsdnet.net/cgi-bin/a.out
>>
> 
> That's awesome :)

It really is, the code is really elegant too!

> Speaking of things being implemented in unlikely langauges, ever see the 
> high-precision PI computator written in MS batch?
> http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-A-Batch-of-Pi.aspx

I love the name of the site, it just screams funny.

>> You'd be amazed at how many web people were freaked out by the very idea!
>>
> 
> Considering most of the "web developers" I've had the misfortune to work 
> with, you'd be amazed just how unamazed I am at those reactions ;)

Same here, the worst code and "developers" I've seen were at jobs I had, 
from people straight out of computer science. I've seen code so 
backwards it made me want to bash my head on the nearest wall to ease 
the pain :)