OT? On Programming (was: Re: Computers for children)

From: Max Eskin <kurtkilgor_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri Jan 15 17:00:32 1999

> This is definitely off-topic (who was that said I was single-minded?) but
> for a fine example of bletcherousness, try the source to the pine mailer
> (here also known as pain, or Pain In Neck Email). Find the 70K source
file
> that handles the main mail stuff, and try 'grep goto' - and watch three
or
> four screenfulls scroll by. All in one function (the 70K file is almost
> all one function).

Besides for this example, what do you feel is wrong with PINE? What do you
prefer? I would like to know since I'm an inexperienced Linux user, and
this is on-topic since PINE is over 10 years old.
Received on Fri Jan 15 1999 - 17:00:32 GMT