Upper limit on software hate
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From: Edmund von der Burg
Date: 16:12 on 26 Jan 2007
Subject: Upper limit on software hate
Date: 16:12 on 26 Jan 2007
Subject: Upper limit on software hate
In a thread about hatred for CUPS Timothy Knox wrote:
Ah cups, let me count the ways I hate thee. On second thoughts, no. The heat death of the universe would occur before reaching the end.
This seemed to me a bit much, after all that would be alot of time to express your hatred.
It seems to me that software is lines of code. Now each line of code can be hateful, and can have hateful interactions with every other line of code. Assuming the worst say you had two minutes of hate for each line of code and its interaction with the other lines. That would put an upper limit on the amount of possible hate as:
$total_hate_seconds = 120 * factorial( $lines_of_code );
Sound about right?