Re: Query for Top 10 Most "Expensive" Queries

"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f4f1ab6$1$14558$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> "Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message news:1a75df45.0308282123.58d5dbe7_at_posting.google.com...
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> >
> > Today - programmers write crap code. Even after a 100 builds of that
>
>
> No, they don't. They cut-and-paste crap code into their
> programs. "write code" does not happen today: you "import"
> inappropriate "patterns" and spend the rest of the time fiddling
> the xml config file to try and make that crap match reality.

<sigh> the downside of code reuse - no process to evolve the best code.

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> It's supposed to save time, but invariably what you get is grossly
> inneficient code. In about twice as long as it would take to write
> the same thing in a sane programming language. And you end up using
> only 10% of the "pattern" functionality anyways because no one
> in his right mind would activate the rest of it.

Just curious, if you were King Of All Software, what language would you use?
>
> I wish I had a lead pipe. I've got a #2 iron golf club that
> does MOL the same damage...

Hey, a lot of the big club manufacturers are Oracle shops! :-)

jg

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