| rp21 | i think I'm too critical to be a programmer ... |
| rindolf | rp21: do you mean you're too perfectionist? |
| Su-Shee | yeah sure. there's something like "too good code". |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: print "Hello World!\n"; - that's good code. |
| rindolf | Or maybe say "Hello World!"; |
| rindolf | Can't be improved. |
| rp21 | hey, why did my nick change? |
| rp2 | yes it may be perfectionism |
| rindolf | rp2: ah, sucks. |
| rp2 | E.g.: i want to get all columns from a database table in Perl |
| rp2 | now my problem is that i want to write code that works with a variety of databases and both on windows and Linux |
| rp2 | it seems that as soon as i have found a way to overcome a particular restriction, i mentally add another and spend my time trying to overcome that too, sometimes losing track of the reason i started the script |
| rindolf | rp2: heh. |
| rp2 | if i were a better programmer I'd get through the hurdles quicker and end up with solvesworldhunger.pl |
| rp2 | except that I'd probably finish Perl 7 to write it in first |
| rindolf | rp2: well, some of my programs outgrow their original purpose too. |
| rindolf | rp2: :-D |
| rp2 | except that it'd never get finished because I'd first fix the OSes it's supposed to run on, |
| rp2 | etc etc |
| rp2 | raaaah! |
| rindolf | rp2: you should hire Chuck Norris. |
| rp2 | yes |
| rindolf | Chuck Norris can end world hunger, but he thinks that hungry people make humanity a more challenging adversary. |
| rindolf | If everyone had enough to eat, it would be too easy for him. |
| rindolf | ;-) |
| mino | Chuck Norris also writes understandable perl code... *scnr* |
| rindolf | mino: LOL. |
| rindolf | mino: Chuck Norris can read Perl code that was RSA encrypted. |
| mino | rindolf: is there any difference to unencrypted one? :P |
| rindolf | mino: not to Chuck. |