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                    JOURNAL FOR WEDNESDAY 6TH MARCH, 2013
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SUBJECT: A pile of PHP
   DATE: Wed Mar  6 22:39:41 GMT 2013

Usually Wednesdays are the one day where I can guarantee having time to code
away on WolfMUD in the evening and late into the night. This Wednesday no such
luck. Instead I'm still working - up to my neck in PHP sorting out a horrible
mess. It's a shame when I have to work with PHP when there are much nicer
tools like Go available :(

Still I've been thinking about the WolfMUD code and wondering about the recent
issues I've had with it. I think I know what the problem is, but not sure if I
can explain it. Basically the code is too tight. It's not Go enough. All of
the data structures, packages and methods are bound and knotted together. This
comes from coding in other languages so much where access to everything needs
to be guarded and controlled. I'm slowly learning that Go isn't and shouldn't
be like that.

Fortune for the day: You see a big refactoring in your near future

Maybe I'm just raving like a sleep depraved loony...

--
Diddymus


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