Upper limit on software hate

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In a thread about hatred for CUPS Timothy Knox wrote:

Ah cups, let me count the ways I hate thee. On second thoughts, no. The
heat death of the universe would occur before reaching the end.


This seemed to me a bit much, after all that would be alot of time to
express your hatred.

It seems to me that software is lines of code. Now each line of code
can be hateful, and can have hateful interactions with every other
line of code. Assuming the worst say you had two minutes of hate for
each line of code and its interaction with the other lines. That would
put an upper limit on the amount of possible hate as:

  $total_hate_seconds = 120 * factorial( $lines_of_code );

Sound about right?

Cheers,
  Edmund.

• Upper limit on software hate Edmund von der Burg 16:12 on 26 Jan 2007
  • Re: Upper limit on software hate Peter Pentchev 16:41 on 26 Jan 2007
    • too deep to show
  • Timothy Knox 18:02 on 26 Jan 2007
  • Peter da Silva 18:20 on 27 Jan 2007
    • too deep to show

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