embarrassing code

I just wrote an ant target to call a bat file to loop over all files of a given type and call a different bat file. (This last bat file doesn't understand wildcards, and it's commercial software so I'm loathe to hack at it.)

I feel dirty.

(I couldn't figure out how to write the loop within the body of the ant target, which would clearly be better.)

interviewed by nickjong

Nick asked me these questions a while back, but I never got the email notification and I didn't notice. If anyone else thinks I'm ignoring questions, please let me know.

1. How has the field of software documentation evolved during your career?

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2. How did growing up in the SCA community in particular influence who you are now? Would you have grown into more or less the same person in a different social environment, such as your current congregation?

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3. If you could become a pen pal of any person from any time, with whom would you correspond? (To avoid paradox, assume that the person exists in a parallel universe, so you could even correspond with yourself from the past without causing reality to implode.)

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4. Alternatively, what do you do if the genie allows you to undo after seeing the consequences? Specifically, you may once instantly revert reality to a backup copy of the moment before he would have contacted you. Does your answer change if you could remember your experiences from the forked reality?

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5. How would you characterize the stories that you most enjoy reading or watching? How have these desiderata changed over time?

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