Hobart to Melbourne to Hobart

At the end of September we voyaged to Melbourne to meet the incoming fleet that would carry on to Sydney for the International Fleet Review. Melbourne took the opportunity to have a tall ship festival in Williamstown, which was an excellent but intense few days.

Trivia Quiz

I’m thinking of an environment that:

• Is written in a horrible mashup of several languages.
• Tests for “features, not platforms” as best practice (this one’s actually a good idea)
• The few people that truly understand it think it’s actually okay.
• Everyone else thinks it a rotten stinking heap that became entrenched because it was in the right place at the right (wrong?) time.
• Works around a plethora of vendor incompatibilities in basic functionality that’s meant to be part of a so-called “standard”.

Am I thinking about web development or the GNU Autotools?