At 10:10 AM -0500 6/2/06, Jay Blanchard wrote: >[snip] >It's interesting to dangle bait above a pool of programmers and see what >rises. :-) > >There used to be a contest to create the most complicated solution to >accomplish a very trivial task, like turning on a light switch. However, >I can't remember what the contest was called -- it was something like >the FUBAR awards. >[/snip] > >Obfuscation contests! The Rube-Goldberg machines of software design.
Ahhh, yes -- that was it. However, the Rube-Goldberg started with physical machines, like rolling balls, mouse-traps, levers, and such. Thanks for refreshing my memory, I would have thought about that all day. tedd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
