Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> http://www.1729.com/blog/EconomicsOfTestingUglyCode.html
>
> --
> Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

That sounds to me like a (very) long-winded way of saying that debugging 'ugly'
code doesn't make it any less ugly--it just makes it run for the time being.

But what strikes me as more interesting is some of his other articles:

"Zero Divided By Zero"
     Ugh, nullity again?

"Music is Things that Happen and Things that Don't Happen"
     Um... and I got a great refund today for the gas I didn't buy...  Isn't
this just a classic jazz quote expanded to the point of ridiculousness?

"Can the Internet Think?"
     "The question of whether computers can think is like the questions of
whether submarines can swim."  - Edsger W. Dijkstra

How I Invented Social Bookmarking
     ...

Could There Exist a Very Large Natural Number Physically Equal to Zero?
From the article: "Of course we know that 1000000 is not physically equal to
zero in our universe, because we don't routinely observe that millions of
objects suddenly disappear. If there is a large natural number N physically
equal to zero, it must be a number much larger than 1000000."
     Oh boy.  And 0.99999... != 1.  On second thought, let's not go there.

 - Ricky

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