I meant it more like a recollection than a lamentation, but it was cathartic here and there :-).
I don't know if it's obvious from it, so I'd rather spell it out -- there are times when "turds" are useful and not to be disdained, much like their real-word cousins: cow dung can be a good construction material and a useful fuel. Certainly worse than concrete and uranium but if that's all you can find or all you can afford, it sure beats eating raw meat and sleeping under the stars.
This isn't true of every piece of software shit in existence, though. Sometimes, "but it works" is just a bad excuse.
I don't know if it's obvious from it, so I'd rather spell it out -- there are times when "turds" are useful and not to be disdained, much like their real-word cousins: cow dung can be a good construction material and a useful fuel. Certainly worse than concrete and uranium but if that's all you can find or all you can afford, it sure beats eating raw meat and sleeping under the stars.
This isn't true of every piece of software shit in existence, though. Sometimes, "but it works" is just a bad excuse.