Work Partner

I have to pair program at work. It sucks. I was writing PHP and using print inside of if statements to print HTML and then my partner gets all mad at me and says use the template. WHY. It is too complex to write the same stuff twice if I write templates the code is bound to the templates.

Even worse, he breaks up my one liners.

He says it is easier to read. But I've done it a jillion times if they hadn't seen it before now then they weren't reading the code!

>>6 has never used a serious language.

You aren't being paid to be a primadonna. You're being paid to write working maintainable code. It's easy to write one-liners that take a few seconds to figure out (lol Perl, but also most languages out there), and that quickly adds up for whoever has to read your wankery.

I understand where >>2 is coming from, because my main job is interfacing several pieces of software. I fucking hate people with attitudes like >>6, and wish only people like >>2 wrote code.