Oops! rwelty@averillpark.net (Richard Welty) was seen spray-painting on a wall:
> "Does Not Taunt The Garbage Collector."
That is the nicest way I have ever seen of characterizing abuses of
system features.
In Java, GC is something people are prone to "Taunt."
In C, there's _something_ surrounding malloc() that often gets
"taunted;" I'm not certain how to characterize it.
In Lisp, the _other_ two things that get "taunted" by bad programmers
are:
a) Recursion (when they think that's the _only_ way to go) and
b) Doing _way_ too much list manipulation using c[ad]+r.
In Forth, the "taunting" of the system tends to come if your code does
more stack manipulation than "real work."
There's a tendancy for these misuses to lead to code being less
readable, to boot...
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