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Reports of procmail's death are not terribly exaggerated

Reports of procmail's death are not terribly exaggerated

Posted Nov 25, 2010 0:45 UTC (Thu) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869)
In reply to: Reports of procmail's death are not terribly exaggerated by snore
Parent article: Reports of procmail's death are not terribly exaggerated

Have you ever looked at vixie's cron?

(to be fair, it's not bad code per se, it's just plain weird)


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Reports of procmail's death are not terribly exaggerated

Posted Nov 27, 2010 14:29 UTC (Sat) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

As Ward Cunningham once put it, "Clean code is when you look at a routine and it's pretty much what you expected.". Therefore, weird code _is_ bad code.

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