Programmer humor
Bob Morris @ May 14th 2007 16:47 - Category: Unfiled
For the more geekly-inclined of you out there, some programmer humor from SysProg.net
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. (Nathaniel S Borenstein)
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. (Stan Kelly-Bootle)
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code. (Paul Graham)
Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. (Linus Torvalds)
If you get the first three, you probably spend far too much time coding…
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Woody on 14 May 2007 at 6:38 pm #
I always heard it said like this:
Waiting in Transit... on 16 May 2007 at 9:39 am #
Humour for Coders…
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