This is why programmers don’t want to deal with dates

[haggholm]

The subject matter is hideously complex. (On top of that quicksand foundation, many of the implementations are rickety in and of themselves.)

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Edit: It occurs to me that I just effectively declared that “programmers don’t like dates”. I feel as though I’m channelling some sort of stereotype…

Comments

[surrey-sucks.livejournal.com]

I run on transit time!

[renatus.livejournal.com]

... And at first I was trying to figure out what programming had to do with a palm tree fruit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_dactylifera#Dates").

[petter-haggholm.livejournal.com]

Wrong fruit entirely—software is more like figs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_wasp) (that is, full of bugs)—but the fruit/software connection is apt. After all, we programmers are often concerned with kernels, shells, and such.

[renatus.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha XD