RE: [tlug] [OT] Good IT Resume

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

I nominate this for post of the year. This had me laughing out loud,
it's so painfully correct.

cjs

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> burlingk@example.com writes:
>
> > I have seen a number of libraries that just use libtool to link
> > into place.  But at my current level of expertise, libtool is a
> > mysterious and arcane box.
>
> I don't know anybody who actually understands libtool.  In general,
> the whole autotool suite is a pile of crocks.  It kind of has to be,
> given the nature of the problem (dealing with system idiosyncracies so
> that the core developers don't have to be), but it's exacerbated by
> the use of a crock language (m4) in the central tool, autoconf.
>
> That said, note that libtool is a device for spreading brain-damaged
> libraries, not for fixing them.