From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quote by Knuth Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:43:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83fswg6prr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o8bgg6br.fsf@zoho.eu> <20210705154121.GB6395@tuxteam.de> <878s2j2onn.fsf@zoho.eu> <87r1gbdr6d.fsf@zoho.eu> <877dhsfrxs.fsf@zoho.eu> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14264"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 15 08:43:57 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m3v6D-0003Ue-9f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:43:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43854 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m3v6C-0007Hc-00 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:43:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m3v5q-0007HU-Uk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38494) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m3v5q-0000BS-NK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4205 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m3v5q-0005Si-8d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:43:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Christopher Dimech on Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:58:29 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131720 Archived-At: > From: Christopher Dimech > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:58:29 +0200 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Many jobs are about getting a job done, rather than showing literacy, except > in academia, mostly written by young inexperienced idiots on low pay or no pay > at all. I guess you never had to maintain large complex programs written by someone else, who has long ago left the organization and is not available for help. Happens in my line of daytime work all the time. (Heck, even Emacs maintenance and development present this very problem quite frequently.) That's when you value every single bit of explanation "written by idiots" about what the program does and how.