AmIEvilOrNot.com

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Ideas for a new .com website now the bubble is expanding again

Synopsis

Site rates things based on their evil nature

Evil List

  • Getters
  • Setters
  • GOTO’s
  • Sun/Microsoft settlement
  • Renaming Patterns
  • Long Commutes

Not Evil List

  • Expose
  • Battlefield Vietnam
  • Scripting Languages
  • Categorising people as Dwarves, Elves, Pirates or Ninjas

Pending filing

  • Groovy
  • Egoware
  • Extreme Programming
  • Lotus Notes

Update: Both Mark Pilgrim and Russell Beattie are also categorising things as evil or not.

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7 Responses to “AmIEvilOrNot.com”

Evil list additions:

  • The ‘new’ keyword. (Outside of factories and the like, that is.)
  • Perl.
  • RPG IV.
  • Trigonometry.
  • COMEFROMs.

Not evil list amendment:

  • Scripting Languages except Perl.
  • Categorising people as Dwarves, Elves, Pirates or Ninja. (Bit of pedantry, there.)

Pending list addition:

  • Gmail.

Oh, and you can move Lotus Notes from pending to evil, too. ;-)

Gah! I forgot regular expressions too…

REs? Evil or Not Evil? Mine are Not Evil, everyone else’s are Evil. ;-)

Erm, definately not Evil I think.

If this was inspired by Russell Beattie’s posting http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007374.html then RealPlayer should have been listed somewhere in there.

If it wasn’t inspired by Russ, it’s an amusing synchronicity.

Yowser – that is a coincidence indeed! The inspriation came jointy from those “Whose Hot and Whose Not lists” you find in the gutter celebrity press, the series of (sometimes) bile spewing articles “Why X is Evil” by Allen Holub (http://www.google.com/search?q=Allen+Holub+why+evil&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&IE=utf-8&oe=utf-8) and a realisation that we may be entering a second wave of potential madness with the current market boom.

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