note blazar <blockquote><i>Ya, I don't know. I can think of few things more fleeting or temporary than a computer program.</i></blockquote> <p>[|I personally believe] that you're right, but the point here is that however long lasting or rapidly vanishing some piece of code may be... there's a big difference between the possibilities that it is so out of being very good or very bad respectively. A particular one may end up being firmly etched in stone... err, well in bits -that last like solid stone- in some hall of shame at the [|WTF], which will assure long life to it for the memory of our children, but of course I pray that this won't happen to any of mine! :)</p> <blockquote><i>That said, it is the lot in life of most techies to make infinitesmal contributions to progress that will never be recognized by more than the week's paycheck.</i></blockquote> <p>Yeah, but overall it's a comforting thought: I know that as a consequence of my bragging about <strike>brilliant</strike> cranky ideas of mine for Perl 6 at least some interesting discussion was raised and all in all there will be some heritage from me in the beast when if eventually comes alive, albeit of a size comparable to that of a single hair wrt the whole animal.</p> 643317 644316