<pedantic>

Code is not stupid, stupid is an insult that applies directly to person you are addressing.

It's perfectly good English to refer to a thing as stupid without implying anything about the things author. Webster's has "Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things." as one of the definitions.

Saying "This code is stupid" is most often heard as "You are stupid".

All too true - but the problem may not be with the author. I can (and do :-) write stupid code on occasion, that doesn't imply that I am stupid.

Too often people think they are being "brutally honest" while in fact they are simply poor communicators, or to be "brutally honest", they are being stupid.

They might be poor communicators. They might not be stupid.

</pedantic>

In reply to Re^3: (OT) The Honest Cherry Bomb by adrianh
in thread (OT) The Honest Cherry Bomb by Ovid

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