[plt-scheme] No More Boring Code

From: Jordan Johnson (jmj at fellowhuman.com)
Date: Wed Apr 8 17:40:59 EDT 2009

On Apr 7, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote:
>> ...Hence, the Anti-Boring Code League.  I plan to make T-Shirts.   
>> Anyone feel like improving the logo?
>
> Sign me up.  I like the idea.  Here's an alternate idea for a T- 
> shirt.  Gather all the Java code you can find, filter and sort it  
> to produce a top 20 list of the most inane things people have to  
> put again and again and again in their Java code, and then produce  
> a tag map.  Make that the background.  At the center should be  
> something that visually symbolizes extreme boredom.  Put the red  
> circle with the line through it over that image.  Put the words  
> "ban boring code" in some artsy font on the slanted line.  BBC!

First thing that popped into my head, for the background:  Get a  
dense block of code, color it grey, and selectively color characters  
black (or red?) to spell (in bigger words, a la DrScheme's "Insert  
Large Letters") "blah blah blah"...

jmj



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