[Gloucs] What's wrong with this code?

[Keith Edmunds]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:39:57 +0100, glynd at walmore.com said:

> c) virtually everyone on the planet is a better programmer than me.

Don't be so negative. If it was meant to be a sophisticated gateway
monitor then it failed, but I suspect it was supposed to be a quick 'n'
dirty hack, and it works in that respect.

Make mistakes once. If you code something else that relies upon ping
returning an error and you don't include a timeout, THEN you're not such a
good programmer. Not because you made a mistake, but because you didn't
learn from the first time you made a mistake. At least you had the balls
to put the code up here for all to see.

K.

-- 
Keith Edmunds

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