A while ago in the company I worked for, I was assigned a task.
Me being given that task was an error: a guy with the same first name as me was supposed to get it.
I could go on and on how that situation got managed, but this blog is about serious stuff and not about politics and egos in the workplace.
So, I got a look at the application I was supposed to maintain and to make evolve. A very nice java application, quite well written, hundreds of line of code, readable and so on. Nicely written from a design patterns point of view.
What was this application doing with its hundreds of lines of code ?
$ xslproc sheet.xsl document.xsl > output.xml
Yes, these hundred of lines of code fit into one line. What about datasource are you asking ? Well, everything is a file in unix...
Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of things I hate about the Unix way, but...
Please, let's keep things as simple as they are... And you know what ? They are usually more efficient and as powerful when they are kept simple...
