Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 16:52:22 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What's your excuse? (humour) Message-ID: <35C87FB6.1A9E3BF2@uk.radan.com>
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TOP 20 PROGRAMMER RESPONSES WHEN THEIR PROGRAMS DON'T WORK 20. "That's weird..." 19. "It's never done that before." 18. "It worked yesterday." 17. "How is that possible?" 16. "It must be a hardware problem." 15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?" 14. "There is something funky in your data." 13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!" 12. "You must have the wrong version." 11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence." 10. "I can't test everything!" 9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT." 8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested." 7. "Somebody must have changed my code." 6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?" 5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel? 4. "You can't use that version on your system." 3. "Why do you want to do it that way?" 2. "Where were you when the program blew up?" And the Number 1 Programmer Response When Their Programs Don't Work 1. "I thought I fixed that." -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Windows 95: A 32-bit graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit | | operating system originally encoded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a | | 2-bit company who can't stand 1-bit of competition. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com Radan Computational Ltd | http://www.uk.radan.com Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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