Good programming rules

[Ioannis Vranos]

Here are some good programming rules that I have found on the Net:

http://tinyurl.com/yrw3x

http://tinyurl.com/2fv5a


Regards,

Ioannis Vranos

[Stewart Gordon]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

Here are some good programming rules that I have found on the Net:

http://tinyurl.com/yrw3x

http://tinyurl.com/2fv5a

I like this one:

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Okay, I know this isn't rec.games.trivia, but...

Can someone tell me the machine and editor which, when instructed to

MAKE WAR

would respond with

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR

(no, I don't know the answer; someone told me about this one once)

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It can be done with a makefile:

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WAR:
@echo MAKE LOVE NOT WAR
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For some obscure reason, my (Mac OS X) box allows some executables to be
run in uppercase, but not others.

Stewart.

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[Victor Bazarov]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

[...]
http://tinyurl.com/2fv5a

I remember only one curious thing from my mainframe days.
There was a command "D A" which would Display Active tasks,
and our terminals' spacebars were mostly screwed up, so we
had an alias (I guess) set up so that the system would
accept "DA" to do the same thing, with one difference: it
would say something "Hey, don't be in such a hurry" just
before displaying the list of active tasks.

Another thing I encounter basically every day: Mozilla
news reader and e-mail program has a good spell-checker in
it, but whey you write "etc." anywhere it sees "etc" (no
punctuation is taken into consideration) and immediately
suggests "etc." as a replacement. I bet it will do it in
this message too when I try to send it :-)

V

[Ioannis Vranos]

Something else, which is interesting.

F# : http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.aspx


Regards,

Ioannis Vranos

[Ioannis Vranos]

Victor Bazarov wrote:

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

[...]
http://tinyurl.com/2fv5a

I remember only one curious thing from my mainframe days.
There was a command "D A" which would Display Active tasks,
and our terminals' spacebars were mostly screwed up, so we
had an alias (I guess) set up so that the system would
accept "DA" to do the same thing, with one difference: it
would say something "Hey, don't be in such a hurry" just
before displaying the list of active tasks.

Another thing I encounter basically every day: Mozilla
news reader and e-mail program has a good spell-checker in
it, but whey you write "etc." anywhere it sees "etc" (no
punctuation is taken into consideration) and immediately
suggests "etc." as a replacement. I bet it will do it in
this message too when I try to send it :-)

Yes, Mozilla Thunderbird does the same to me. I do not know if the etc.
thing is a bug of the newsreader or the dictionaries.
It prompts me to make "etc" an "etc." even for "etc."! :-)


Regards,

Ioannis Vranos

[Phlip]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

Here are some good programming rules that I have found on the Net: http://tinyurl.com/yrw3x
I luv how your tinyurl stored hl=el . Kewl effect.
http://tinyurl.com/2fv5a

You forgot:

http://mindprod.com/unmain.html

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Phlip
http://industrialxp.org/community/bi...UserInterfaces

[Ioannis Vranos]

Phlip wrote:

I luv how your tinyurl stored hl=el . Kewl effect.

Actually, I saw the http://tinyurl.com for the first time, from someone
else in this newsgroup.


Regards,

Ioannis Vranos

[red floyd]

I remember the good old days back at UC Santa Cruz 1983.

We had to write either an assembler or a linker (I was on the linker
team). Well, we decided to write the 8086 BAT-Linker, so our error
messages were on the order of:

"Holy [something] Batman! [error condition occurred]! Quick, to the
BAT-DEBUGGER!"
"Yes, Robin, but even so, fatal errors are no excuse for poor traffic
safety"
"Gosh, Batman, I never thought of that!"

----

Or in a translator program I inherited on the job a few years later,
if a union was nested too deeply, it would kick out "NEST LEVEL
EXCEEDED--- I HATE YOU", about 100 times on the screen before aborting.

[Howard]

My favorite was in Windows (I forget which version), if there wasn't enough
memory to create a dialog [window]. An error dialog appeared, stating:

"Error: unable to create Error Dialog".

:-)

-Howard

[Chris Gordon-Smith]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

Here are some good programming rules that I have found on the Net:

http://tinyurl.com/yrw3x

http://tinyurl.com/2fv5a

My favourite was:-

"Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language"
--
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London
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Email Address: Please see my Home Page

[Anil Mamede]

For me is:

"A programmer is good or bad depending on what he did and not what he knows"

Chris Gordon-Smith wrote:

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

Here are some good programming rules that I have found on the Net:

http://tinyurl.com/yrw3x

http://tinyurl.com/2fv5a

My favourite was:-

"Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language"

[rossum]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:32:21 +0000, Anil Mamede <am**@mega.ist.utl.pt>
wrote:

For me is:

"A programmer is good or bad depending on what he did and not what he knows"

Chris Gordon-Smith wrote:

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

Here are some good programming rules that I have found on the Net:

http://tinyurl.com/yrw3x

http://tinyurl.com/2fv5a

My favourite was:-

"Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language"

Zen error messages:

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
The Web site you seek
Can not be located.
Countless more exist.
Aborted effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask way too much.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
From http://www.khandro.net/Bud_paths_Zen.htm
rossum

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