In reply to Milan Petrovic.

I really have not explored others plugins new or old in as far as the code goes. I'd imagine I will find "Hmms" and "Neato's".

I dont prescribe to traditions. See. When I started coding there were no standards. I was writing Z80 Assembler on TRS-80 Radio Shack computers running TRSDOS and CP/M.

While computer languages have become far more complex the actual CPU's have not really moved along at similar pace in as far as the microcode. So I have kept my "assembly language" skills in tact albeit basically seldom having to use them.

I worked for Atari, Sierra Online, Electronic Arts, Thorn EMI to name a few, mainly long hours all nighters banging out video game code. Back in those days (daze) no standards. Standard was, "Make it work!". LOL.

I worked with Jack Purdum who was CEO of Que Books on one of the first "C" compilers for "anyone". That was a learning experience. Again, no standards.

When the Web came to be, still... no standards. I aided in the coding of Haggle Online the worlds second Auction site (AuctionWeb (now eBay)) being the first. No standards. Make it work.

From there to Onsale inc. to help code out the Onsale Auction's marketplace (a site for third party business .vs. the main site which were Onsale core consignment auctions). #2 site on the Internet in its day (Onsale) behind eBay.

No standards. Make it work.

I wake up one day, go to login. Nothing. Make a call. Entire codebase sold to Yahoo. Becomes the core of Yahoo auctions. NICE! No standards (or decorum!!!!).

Was said I will be compensated. Still waiting, Been what? 18 years? "All smells that smells well".

I did some work with Mike Abrash well known as one of the finest "code optimizers" in history. Standards sit as a roadblock in most cases towards performance.

Performance now is a commodity. You must have at least a Core i5 with this and that to run this video game. From a consumer point of view, "You must code essential performance based code in assembler and I can then run your game on a Pentium 4"

All this stuff is "no wine before its time" as it keeps the dough cookin'

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I love stack overflow, I use it all the time. But me thinks that their survey is rather skewed... up.