[asterisk-users] Rate My Dialplan Contest Announced - Win a Phone or Copies of APSTel Visual Dialplan Std or Pro!

Matt Gibson mattgibson.ca at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 12:34:42 CST 2008


> > selected as
> > the winners and will be awarded the following prizes:
> > [snip]
> 
> 
> 
> I think you'd get just as much interest in an "Obfuscated Dialplan
> Contest" which seems to be the most popular type of dialplan
> programming.  The more unreadable, ugly, and opaque the code becomes,
> the more secure the employment of the administrator is who created
> it.  In this economy, it would tend to lead one to think that dialplan
> logic will naturally become more difficult and tangled.  :-)
> 
> There's precedent - http://www.ioccc.org/
> 

Interesting. I hadn't heard of this before. I know you're somewhat joking,
but there's some truth to this as well - I've seen some pretty obfuscated
dialplans in my day. I'll keep it in mind, however I don't know how well
this would work with graphical diagrams. 

Thanks for the input, 
Matt





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