Zarf's Journal: Planet Linux

I've not been around /. much the last year or so because I've been busy working on a jBPM/Rules engine based product. Because of that I've been on planet Java for the last six months. I just got my Beryl desktop running this week and just about missed that whole fad. My Windows and Mac co-workers are jealous of my Beryl fire and wobble effects.

One thing that I noticed is that there really is a "planet Java" and a "planet Linux" and so on. Each sub-culture of the greater computer geek culture is strangely oblivious to the other. I suspect that there is a "planet Windows" and some of the newer more entertaining tech blogs reflect this. DailyWTF aka Worse Than Failure and Coding Horror reflect this. Many examples are Microsoft platform centric. It could be because VB, C#, and Windows programs in general are just more prone to stupidity... or because "planet Windows" is closed source so it's novel to have the ability to scrutinize code and laugh at it.

Has anyone seen Unix/Linux/BSD code that commits the same faux pas as the code posted to WTF or Coding Horror? What normally happens on "planet Linux" when code faux pas is committed? I suspect we end up in formally peer reviewing each other and chiding the WTFer into correcting their mistake.

OSS is not fairy dust

[Nevyn]

Has anyone seen Unix/Linux/BSD code that commits the same faux pas as the code posted to WTF or Coding Horror? What normally happens on "planet Linux" when code faux pas is committed? I suspect we end up in formally peer reviewing each other and chiding the WTFer into correcting their mistake.

Yes, and the same as on planet MS.

If you filter to "Linux code that is OSS, with an active community", it's much harder to get total crap commited ... but you still have WTFs, just maybe not as bad (wu-ftpd, sen

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[Zarf]

Good point, I don't normally look at code for projects I don't like. As such I'm filtering out the really bad WTF stuff by gravitating to the most popular and well peer reviewed projects.