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Any particular reason you posted this in The Weird and the Wonderful?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yeah I just deleted it. I accidently landed here instead of the lounge and I wasn't paying close enough attention apparently.
Real programmers use butterflies
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It is according to the Scriptures, telling both the language and what we should use it for: Go Forth, and multiply.
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I always thought that was the polite way of telling someone to f*** off.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If you are telling them to “go away”, then you probably do not want THEM to multiply.
Multiply as in procreate.
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I am dead certain about I feel : avoid it at all cost. Forth is a write-only language. I almost had that booger flicked on me once but I dodged it, thankfully.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Agreed. Back in the Long Ago Time, when I was in college, I took the computer graphics sequence and even did an independent study course. All of the programming was in PL/I-80[^] on Z-80 CP/M machines.
The year after that, some numbnuts in the Computer Science department switched to using Forth. The courses were still taught using the classic Fundamentals of Computer Graphics by J. D. Foley and A. Van Dam which used a procedural pseudo-code for presenting algorithms.
The pseudo-code made sense when implemented in PL/I. In Forth, not so much .
Software Zen: delete this;
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That sounds frightening. I can not imagine a worse language to learn computer graphics than Forth.
I used a variant of PL/I called PL/M on Intel 8085 development systems with ICE many, many years ago. It was servicable. For simple, senior-level projects it was.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Why worry about the Y10K problem if it is going to happen many centuries after your death? Exactly because you will already be dead, so the companies using your software will be stuck using your software without any other coder who knows the system well enough to come in and fix it.
If humanity survives the next 7978 years, is still using something we would recognise as computers, is still running software created today, and hasn't either developed advanced AI capable of fixing this sort of problem, or trained enough people to fix it, then something has gone very wrong.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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My software is written so well that people (or our lizard overlords...) will still be using it ~8000 years from now.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"The future's uncertain and the end is always near." -- Jim Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971)
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In 1998, a programmer who had been working on Y2K fixes started to get anxious because he couldn't believe how pervasive the problem was. He switched from company to company trying to get away from it, but everywhere he went he became regarded as the Y2K expert and immediately became the team lead for that company's Y2K contingencies. He finally had a nervous breakdown, quit his job, and decided he wanted to be knocked unconscious when the Y2K actually came about.
A month before Y2K he was put into an artificial coma and cooled down to a near cryogenic easily sustained long term life support.
Unfortunately the life support notification system had a Y2K bug, and no one revived him for 8000 years.
Finally he was found and revived. He woke up, and saw himself surrounded by lots of glass, light, stainless steel, and tall beautiful people in white robes. He asked if he was in Heaven.
They replied, "No, this is Chicago. Actually but it's a lot like Heaven to someone like you."
"Someone like me?"
"You are from the 20th century. Many of the problems that existed in your lifetime have been solved for thousands of years. There is no hunger and no disease. There is no scarcity, or strife between races and creeds."
"What year is it now?"
"Yeah, about that - it's the year 9,998. You see, the year 10,000 is coming up, and we understand you know something called COBOL?"
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You just redeemed yourself!
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Awesome!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Sander Rossel wrote: "Yeah, about that - it's the year 9,998. You see, the year 10,000 is coming up, and we understand you know something called COBOL?" You woke the wrong one, idjits! I do VB6!
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Only on earth; everyone else will be using the Julian Day.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion - Oi who wrote this code?"
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I'm surprised nobody pointed out the double-negative:
Quote: it was unlikely that his programs ... were unlikely to be around in the year 9999
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Looking a bit into the past, a number of us old guys remember the "1970 problem". Prior to 1970, the year in most systems was stored as a single digit. This led to the same problem as Y2K ... but with a lot less publicity.
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The Y2k problem arised from us using 2 digits to store the year.
A Y10k problem is imaginary.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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