だまし絵シリーズ

In the first place, God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made
school boards.
		-- Mark Twain

> My personal advice and preferences:
> Don't bother with advice about understanding 50-line code blocks.
> Advise how to make 10,000,000 line code base easier to understand.

Your advice is similar to going to a guy explaining home-improvement on TV and
showing how to build a shelf (or whatever) well, and telling him: "don't
bother with advice about building a shelf - advise how to build a 150 story
sky-scraper!". True, if a someone is about to build a sky-scraper, they should
not bother with the details on how to make a shelf (they'll hire someone to do
that), but most people will never need to build a sky-scraper in their lives,
while building shelves is a useful skill.

Similarly, most hobbyist (or even most professional) programmers will benefit
more from advice on writing 10,000 line programs than from advice on how to
write 10,000,000 lines.

    -- Nadav Har'El
    -- Hackers-IL Message No 1,222 ( http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-il/message/1222 )