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Re: Does Humor Belong in Programming?

by johngg (Canon)
on Oct 04, 2015 at 14:49 UTC ( [id://1143752]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Does Humor Belong in Programming?

Yes, definitely. I remember an article in the Sun user group magazine a long time ago about amusing compiler messages. This one is my favourite -

"a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program"

I just found them again online here.

Cheers,

JohnGG

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Re^2: Does Humor Belong in Programming?
by smknjoe (Beadle) on Oct 05, 2015 at 15:07 UTC
    Thanks for the link John. Some of those were pretty funny. I remember learning many a moon ago about one humorous things the UNIX programmers put into the manpage for tunefs (sp?). "You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tuna fish." I think it was an indirect reference to the band REO Speedwagon's "You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish."

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