cranky young man

[trochee]

things that make me crazy today:

• inconsistent choices between zero-based and one-based numbering schemes
• obscure error messages
• putting lots of source into header files
• header file names do not match class names
• source control that consists of renaming the file in the same directory. and leaving it there with the binary ("hmm -- which code do you think he used to build this? was it newfeatures.h or features.h or experimental-features.h?")

I feel like the inverse of the cranky old man. I am sitting in my rocking chair ergo desk chair, and saying "back in my day" "these days," I mutter, "we have tools for this sort of thing. And we don't keep it all straight in our heads. I don't care if 'disk crash' was a literal term when you were starting -- putting all the vowels in the variable name doesn't cost extra any more."