OMGWTF! ROFLMAOCSOMN

OK, geek alert for this post. I found this site lamenting--celebrating?--the very worst in technology practices, including Stupid Programmer Tricks, of which we know there are Legion.

From the comments in the recent article "It's Like Calling Assert", I glean the following Ode, which (if not already) should be considered a classic:

An Ode to the Ay of Certain Developers:

Forsooth! And how doth the keyboard clack
As when, among twin perils of unnecessary loops and strange Inner Platforms,
Bestride the angry waters of unfamiliar syntax and new paradigms
Doth the Certain Developer lament: alas and alack!
My brain hurteth so: ay ay ay
This mountain, this Learning Curve, I durst not climb.

But wherein his refuge? Of what dost thou speak?

I speak of the inevitable temptation, to wit:
As Alexander crossed the Hellespont,
As Odysseus braved the maelstrom,
Verily as Hercules confronted the Hydra,
So our hero confronts the Language Beast,
And vanquishes the angry unknown, be it syntax or context,
With an onslaught, truly a fusillade: the Wrapper of our Discontent,
That the Language may, to his will be bent.

Funniest part is that I often say things like "that makes my brain hurt" when I hear extreme illogic (or stupidity) being espoused.

And with that I send thee off into The Wrapper of Our Discontent.

PS. The title? O my god, what the fark! Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off, coffee shooting out my nose. A fair approximation of my reaction, though kept carefully internalized.