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Re: [OFF TOPIC] Required reading for programmers

• Posted by Ted Fines <fines at macalester.edu> Apr 25, 2001
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Wow!  Are you this much fun at parties, too?!

--On Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:57:19 AM +0200 j.f.deneken at hccnet.nl 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gerardo <gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM>
> To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 5:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] Required reading for programmers
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>> Ted,
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>> Thank you! Nice to know that someone's taken the time to put into writing
>> what we've known for all these years. I only missed one thing, namely the
>> insertion of phony condition testing, as in
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>> if a = a then ...
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>> Or, better yet, conditionals that enclose assuredly non-executable code,
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>> in 'if a > a ...', followed by a few dozen lines of seemingly vital code.
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>> course, you'd never use 'a' in both cases, but equivalent variables with
>> different names, preferably meaningful and unrelated.
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>> And what better language to do all this than good old COBOL, which
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>> prompts you to write something that looks like English. What might a
>> young programmer's attitude be, the poor kid, weaned on C, Java and
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>> Basic, before the presence of a sentence reading
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>> PERFORM ONSTAGE THROUGH INSISTENCE,
>>    VARYING TECHNIQUE FROM HAPHAZARD TO IMPOSSIBLE,
>>       UNTIL FIRED.
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>> Gerardo
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> Moderately funny, but most of all a sheer waste of everybody's time!
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> Fritz.
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