| Rainer Weikusat 2007-06-22, 4:16 am |
| Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> writes:
> Lucas J. Riesau wrote:
>
> It's difficult but doable. I recommend combining several completely
> different languages and programming/data modelling approaches in one
> application, say, a base that is a mix of C and C++, then add some XML
> and top it off with Javascript, the whole thing spread over hundreds of
> files. Make it so errors anywhere in that bastard conglomerate go the
> whole way unchecked down to the C++ bowels or cause random mysterious
> exceptions in the script engine with nearly no useful context. Make your
> application devoid of any sensible debugging and inspection mechanism
> and instead have the programmer dump his files in some directory and
> have him restart the application everytime to test a change (or,
> alternatively, recompile). When you're done delete all documentation (if
> there ever was any) except perhaps for some old and incomplete one that
> never actually reflected the implementation. Give it a spiffu logo and
> some in-crowd kewlness factor and watch the madness unfold.
Microsoft has presumably already patented that (several times).
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