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by matt4077 3808 days ago
... off to start the THE project...
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Shoot for something absolutely essential, destined to be widely used, and if you feel that sadistic streak shining through, start using a word frequency list[0] to name project parts. "of", "and", "in", "to", "in", "I" and "that" will make for marvellous library names, especially if you find a way to hack around the reserved words of your language of choice. Java and C seem like appropriate choices of language, assuming key parts are actually written in Whitespace and/or Brainf*ck. Make it open source, and nest the layers of WTF so it seems like something you could dive into easily.

Maybe if you make all the bad development choices deliberately, you'll actually end up with a beautiful project, because the reverse seems to happen quite frequently.

[0]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists