RE: What counts as technically slick?

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Buck

Ya,  I got one for ya,    This if from my Esoteric RPG collection.

C         MLLZO     'J'  CYTD

Now the Accountants told the programmer that the Credit YTD account is
carried as a negative balance.

Well for you less erudite  programmers might not realize that what ever the
CYTD field was before,
It's  NEGATIVE now by golly.

Slick or Esoteric ?

(PS the last I heard the programmer is now driving taxies)
John Carr

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John Carr said:
>My guiding principles are;
>
>Simple Engineering is Great Engineering
>KISS
>Elegance in Simplicity
>
>Einstein said(I believe)
>"To make something as simple as possible,   But no simpler"
>
>However like beauty,   the definition of the above in any particular
>implementation is in the eye of the beholder.

I agree with you in principle, but we programmers have a bad habit of
endlessly debating theoretical advantages and disadvantages without
mentioning specifics.

James Kilgore gave a great example of something that's too slick (the old
MDY-YMD date multiply trick.)  Are there any other contributions?

Buck Calabro

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