Re: Re: Computers and Programming

[clemburg]

in reply to Re: Computers and Programming
in thread Computers and Programming

> fortune -m 'damned machine'
%% (fortunes)
I really hate this damned machine
I wish that they would sell it.
It never does quite what I want
But only what I tell it.

Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
http://www.brainbench.com

[Biker]

Heh, I wasn't aware of that. I've heard and repeated that statement for more than twenty years. I guess someone was the first to state it, but I've never heard anyone claim to be the origin of the saying.

Not even 'fortune' has a reference to the originator?



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Everything went worng, just as foreseen.

[maverick]

That quote is the source for my variation when dealing with lusers.

Luser: This ^%$*ing computer never does what I tell it to do!

Me: No, it does *EXACTLY* what you tell it to do. That's the problem.

/\/\averick
perl -l -e "eval pack('h*','072796e6470272f2c5f2c5166756279636b672');"

[goldfish]

Well, there was a similar poem published in "The Reader's Digest" in (if my memory serves me correctly) in 1983. It ran something like this:

I hate this computer,
    I wish they would sell it
It doesn't do what I want
    Only what I tell it.

I expect fortune was updated accordingly.

o<