Clandestiny
May 20th, 2001, 20:12
Hi All,
Maybe its just a wee bit off topic, but everyone needs a good laugh once and a while
and I just couldn't resist sharing these links I found 
Here's the art of "How to Write Unmaintainable Code". This'll be a riot of laughs for the programmers among you.
http://mindprod.com/unmain.html
A small excerpt:
"To foil the maintenance programmer, you have to understand how he thinks. He has your giant program. He has no time to read it all, much less understand it. He wants to rapidly find the place to make his change, make it and get out and have no unexpected side effects from the change.
He views your code through a tube taken from the centre of a roll of toilet paper. He can only see a tiny piece of your program at a time. You want to make sure he can never get at the big picture from doing that. You want to make it as hard as possible for him to find the code he is looking for. But even more important, you want to make it as awkward as possible for him to safely ignore anything. "
And here's Unix Humor w/ a whole gauntlet of essays guaranteed to make you laugh.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/8009/index1.html
Hope you guys enjoy some of these as much as I did
Cheers,
Clandestiny
Maybe its just a wee bit off topic, but everyone needs a good laugh once and a while


Here's the art of "How to Write Unmaintainable Code". This'll be a riot of laughs for the programmers among you.
http://mindprod.com/unmain.html
A small excerpt:
"To foil the maintenance programmer, you have to understand how he thinks. He has your giant program. He has no time to read it all, much less understand it. He wants to rapidly find the place to make his change, make it and get out and have no unexpected side effects from the change.
He views your code through a tube taken from the centre of a roll of toilet paper. He can only see a tiny piece of your program at a time. You want to make sure he can never get at the big picture from doing that. You want to make it as hard as possible for him to find the code he is looking for. But even more important, you want to make it as awkward as possible for him to safely ignore anything. "
And here's Unix Humor w/ a whole gauntlet of essays guaranteed to make you laugh.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/8009/index1.html
Hope you guys enjoy some of these as much as I did

Cheers,
Clandestiny