Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][5] The other part of the FFI improvements

[John Cowan]

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 11:22 AM, lemonboy <address@hidden> wrote:

The code/mail ratio is approaching the zero so I'm gonna shut up for a while :)

Don't worry about that.  A consultant was called in one day by a chemical factory because their entire system was blocked and no product was coming out.  Big money was being lost for every minute of shutdown.  The man inspected the huge and complex mess of pipes, valves, mixers, boilers, etc. etc.  Then he took a hammer out of his toolkit and struck one pipe in a particular place.  Product started to gush out and all was well.

He sent in a bill for $50,005.  When the plant management sent it back saying "Too much for one blow with a hammer", he sent back an itemized replacement bill.

One blow with hammer, $5.

Knowing where to hit, $50,000.

Only prose can explain *why* code is the way it is.

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John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        address@hidden

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