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Pipecode source released

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congratulations on an awesome achievement! (Score: 3, Interesting)

by crutchy@pipedot.org on 2014-05-05 08:59 (#1CG)

i wonder if we can convince the powers that be over @ soylent to have a look at the possibility of maybe using pipecode... they might even be able to use apache2 :-P

Re: congratulations on an awesome achievement! (Score: 4, Informative)

by dotdotdot@pipedot.org on 2014-05-06 19:59 (#1E9)

I asked that question when this story got posted over there. NCommander replied with a pretty detailed explanation.

Re: congratulations on an awesome achievement! (Score: 5, Insightful)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-05-06 20:32 (#1EE)

Ncommander's response isn't surprising. I guess the question had to be asked, and now that it's been answered both sites can move on. I thought - with the exception of the word 'mess' - he was essentially gracious. So both sites will move on and complement each other and sometimes even overlap. Sounds like he/they have put a lot of work into upgrading the code, which interesting. Best of luck to our soybean cousins!

Re: congratulations on an awesome achievement! (Score: 4, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-06 21:35 (#1EG)

I thought - with the exception of the word 'mess' - he was essentially gracious.
Well this AC thought the same thing and clarified what I suspect NCommander meant.

I relate because of bitter experience wrangling projects mixing PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS and javascript in the same files. Even more bitter experiences from wrangling projects where the original developer picked the templating language of the week (obviously written in PHP -- itself a templating language). Code I was employed to maintain where the original developers were storing and retrieving random javascript and html snippets using the database and every database table had a different character encoding with no validation or sanity checking other than the stupid strip slashes function.

Now, I thought pipecode was relatively clean but the writeln($html) brought back such painful memories as to make me physically shudder. It's just a style thing... unless you've had the nightmare of working with frontend developers on a mess of unmaintainable code. Then it does look like a 'mess' -- but I'm pretty much certain that word was not intended as disparaging to Bryan in any way.

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Time Reason Points Voter
2014-05-06 21:44 Informative +1 dotdotdot@pipedot.org
2014-05-08 08:32 Informative +1 lhsi@pipedot.org
2014-05-11 03:42 Informative +1 mrcoolbp@pipedot.org
2014-05-07 03:02 Interesting +1 reziac@pipedot.org

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