[clug] Programming Humour. (repost)

[steve jenkin]

A friend sent me this link and it always makes me laugh.

<http://james-iry.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html>

I've posted it on this list before, so my apologies in advance.
<http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2010-May/027718.html>

It might be read along with this:
<http://www.textfiles.com/humor/COMPUTER/timeline.lan>

Or this from Al Stevens and others:
<http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pjj/cs211/language.html>

"370 JCL" (Shooting yourself in the foot)
"You send your foot down to the MIS department with a 4000 page
document explaining how you want it to be shot.
 Three years later, your foot comes back deep fried with a bill for
$375,000.00."

The James Iry page misses the April Fools' Day joke about Unix just
being a prank (no it wasn't) :-)

<http://www.anvari.org/shortjoke/Jokes_from_Emails/50033_computerworld-1-april-creators-admit-unix-c-hoax-in-an-announcement-that-has-stunned-the-computer-industry.html>


And the obligatory "If Operating Systems were Airlines":
<http://www.tensionnot.com/jokes/operating_systems_and_airlines>

Linux Air:
 When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench
and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html.


And I stumbled on this list
<http://ps-2.kev009.com/rootvg/humor.htm#Politically%20Correct%20UNIX>


Which points to a dmr page [2000/2003], reminding us there's more to
this world than Computers.
<http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html>


I like the "Unix csh/sh commands".
I thought at one time a version of make responded to "make love" with
"not war". [Others might confirm or correct this.]

The kev009 page includes a Politically Correct sub-section, including:

 For far too long, power has been concentrated in the hands of "root"
and his "wheel" oligarchy.
 We have instituted a dictatorship of the users.
 All system administration functions will be handled by the People's
Committee for Democratically Organizing the System (PC-DOS).

and

  "compress" has been replaced by the lightweight "feather" command.
 Thus, old information (such as that from Dead White European Males)
 should be archived via "tar" and "feather".


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