Banning large rocks

[andrewducker]

I've mentioned before that banning P2P application was just plain silly - you can write P2P code so trivially that you might as well ban people from owning bricks, as they could be used as a murder tool.

Just to show how easy it is, here's a P2P application in 6 lines of code. Admittedly they're fairly indecepherable to the likes of me, but then I'm not a Perl programmer.

Comments

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Unix darling - the key to most Perl. one character commands which are ever so powerful. You just need agigantic memory to remember them all, or a preety good book.

[red-cloud.livejournal.com]

Hmm, Perl. So powerful, so nice to write, such a bugger to maintain.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Hey, but all the obscurity protects the geek-god status ;-)

For the record, for those that don't know me, I am incredibly against any form of the intense obscurantism so beloved of many 'hardcore' programmers. I'll stop now, or I'll start on one of my rants...

Not suggesting that you personally are guilty of it, you understand....