[TriLUG] Is it just me or...

[John Mitchell]

Maybe he was paid by the word(more words = more money).

johnm      :)

On 4/13/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> .. is this not one of the worst written pieces of technobabble you've seen?
>
> http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/javascript/article.php/3470971
>
> I ran across this via the del.ico.us rss feed.
>
> It wanders around trying to make some misbegotten points about
> object-orientation, compilation, and such.
>
> For example:
> "Continuing with the model car example, when you built the engine, you
> didn't use any of the parts that would later build the seats (a 350
> four-barrel engine with a seat belt sticking out if the piston would
> look pretty silly). The point is that all the parts that made up the
> engine were of a certain class of parts. They all went together. Ditto
> with the body and then the interior."
>
> "The point is that in these languages, you build objects out of
> classes of commands to create the whole. Understand the terminology?"
>
> Classes of commands?  All engines parts are of the same class?
> Understand the terminology.  Why yes I do, but the author doesn't.
>
> Then it starts to wind up with:
>
> " So to answer the question of which to use where... use whichever
> fits your needs. That sounds like a cop-out answer,"
>
> BECAUSE IT IS!
>
> It kind of makes me want to establish a Bulwer-Lytton contest for
> technical writing, if one doesn't already exist.
>
> Sorry for ranting, but for some reason this one really set me off.
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> Rick DeNatale
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