Pre-admonishment

[maradydd]

for (int i=0; i<500; ++i)
    std::cout << "No matter how much it clearly needs it, I will not update a 
                 library to take advantage of compile-time type introspection 
                 until I actually understand how the library works and have used 
                 it for something productive." << std::endl;

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Heh.

-Ogre

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

But you have no idea how much I want to.

[allonymist.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this one. Some people need to remind themselves not to generalize until they have two or three use-cases; I need to remind myself not to generalize from zero--especially when there are type/language issues at work.

Example of a fun waste of a month or so from a while ago: Parsely. A brilliant solution to a problem that bears only a passing resemblance to the problems of actual people.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Ironically, this would have been remarkably useful at my last job, but I'm not working there anymore and no one there knew Python anyway.

[karine.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

I was about to ask about the damage when I realised that the title was PRE-admonishment.

so.... you gonna learn how the library works? ;)

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's already in progress -- I'm porting some code from a previous version of it to the new version, by way of wrapping my head around it. It's been very instructive, but dammit, I miss my compile-time type introspection.