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I am not afraid of …

I am not afraid of people writing code

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9 Responses to “I am not afraid of …”

  1. Jef Spaleta Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    What horrible grammar.

    replace “writing” with “eating” and you’ll see why that sentence construction is confusing.

    And more to the point, I think we should all be afraid of code that can write people. Automated email generation will be the death of us all. Why else do we go through the trouble of implementing captcha technology like you use on this very blog. You sir are very much afraid of code that writes people…the captcha provides.

    -jef

  2. John Carr Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    For what you say to hold it would have to be “people-writing code”, no? E.g. “man-eating bear”.

  3. Juanjo Marin Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    I don’t get it :(

    Possibly I’m reading with my the irony mode off

  4. ryan Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    Is it “afraid” when you see a trap laid and don’t want to step in it?

    Sometimes fear is rational, and the fearless are the fools.

  5. Justin Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8IERbMyVuqvAr9o1qpdqYA?feat=directlink

  6. nobody Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    I am not afraid of people writing code for guidance systems for nuclear weapons. But I might be afraid of what their code is being used for….

    And you better be afraid of Hans Reiser if you had been his wife…

  7. Michael "I hate mono" Howell Says:
    July 11th, 2009 at 6:09 am

    Usually, I’m not afraid of people writing code either. I’m afraid of people using it, though, if it may be tainted…

  8. Juanjo Marin Says:
    July 11th, 2009 at 8:14 am

    … I’ve got it. This meme is a sort of reply to RMS et als words about writing C# apps.

    Well, people is/was not afraid of people et al writing code, it was more concerned about the patent menace. The Microsoft Community Promise maybe reduce this.

  9. Svempa Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 10:40 am

    A bit silly, no? Noone is afraid of people writing code.

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