[plt-scheme] No More Boring Code
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