oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) (04/11/85)
[munch.. burp!!] Having had my shares of hacking through sendmail configuration files, I cannot halp but feel flabbergasted about the insistance of creating languages that resemble teco, or a psychdelic assembler language. There is absolutely *no* reason for the sendmail configuration language to be as unreadable as it is. It hurts my eyes to even look at it.. Is this supposed to be more efficient, humanly or otherwise ?? Is this supposed to be easier to implement ?? I do not think so. (perhaps I am mistaken.. maybe we should re-write C to look like this :-)) Having hacked thru APL during my freshman years, I though that I was capable of handling such cryptic languages.. Alas, I was mistaken. As wizdom suggests: "There is always worse". Just add up the time all 4.2 users spent mulling though this *thing*, and translate it to man-months. It probably is a staggering number. God.. I get stomach cramps just thinking about the next time I will have to change something in my configuration files.. Cybercrud: (sy-ber-) 1. The science of communication and control of unnecessary complexity and outdated ideas. 2. Computer by-products and left-overs. Oz (wizard of something or another, no doubt..) usenet: {ihnp4 | allegra | decvax | ..}!utzoo!yetti!oz bitnet: oz@yuleo