[clug] Political (in)Correctness or Just Some Fun?

[steve jenkin]

Obviously liked to "#!" :-)

I'm especially interested in the response of Women on list to this.


<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)>

"Compiled Java class files (bytecode) start with hex CAFEBABE. When
compressed with Pack200 the bytes are changed to CAFED00D."

Ie. Cafe == coffee == Java.

Babe is uncompressed,
Dude is packed/compressed.

Any significance I can't see?

I loved the IBM convention of initialising unalloc space with
"DEADBEEF". Cute, possibly accurate if you used the uninit variable.

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