[CMake-Promote] CMake Rocks
Brandon J. Van Every
bvanevery at gmail.com
Sat Sep 9 18:09:02 EDT 2006
Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> So, when we started this list we were looking for a one word description
>> that would go with CMake. If you google "CMake Rocks", it is
>> starting to become
>> a popular saying. I wonder if we should create a "CMake Rocks" web
>> page with
>> quotes and promotion stuff?
>>
>
> Hell, why not? I mean, it does. "... Rocks!" is something that
> techies do say about stuff, it's proper lingo. [...]
> I mean, you can gush positive at a conference and say, "This Rocks!"
> if it's actually true and you can demonstrate it to the crowd. But I
> don't think you want to use the exclamation point unless you're
> simultaneously backing up your claims. Absent substance, people do
> regard "This Rocks!" from fanboys as just something they're currently
> masturbating over.
Here's some comparative evidence of what you can say at a conference,
and what people's reactions will be:
"Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective" by Ben Tilly
http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.html
[first gives a treatise on the numerous pitfalls of C macros]
[quote]
A few years ago I gave a conference talk in which I asserted that the
C++ macro system blows goat dick. This remark has since become somewhat
notorious, and the C++ fans hate me for it. But I did not think at the
time that this would be controversial. I was sure that even the most
rabid C++ fans would agree with me that the C++ macro system blows goat
dick, for the reasons I have just described. In short: because it can
hardly do anything useful, and because the very few things it can do are
difficult and complicated and fraught with perilous traps for the
unwary. I really thought they would all say "Yes, I love C++, in spite
of its awful macro system." As usual, I forgot what rabid programming
language fans are like; they can and will defend any system, no matter
how dysfunctional, as long as it's *their* dysfunctional sytem.
[/quote]
I think there's a lesson in this about converting the Autoconf crowd.
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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