Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?
by btschaegg on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:11AM
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This. Plus: Macros.
I just recently had an opportunity to flex my "wizard muscles" in a case where we had to feed a test consisting of about a hundred similar messages with minimal differences (numbers) to a system in order to reproduce an issue.
"Can't we try to reproduce this?"
"Maybe, but we'd need a lot of messages in order to reproduce this."
"And...?"
"That's tedious."
"Watch me" *grinning*
A couple of edits and a `100@q` later, we were ready to go.
I just recently had an opportunity to flex my "wizard muscles" in a case where we had to feed a test consisting of about a hundred similar messages with minimal differences (numbers) to a system in order to reproduce an issue.
A couple of edits and a `100@q` later, we were ready to go.