+Schmitzi Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 (edited) . All I need is a miracle Mike + The Mechanics Edited July 9, 2017 by schmitzi 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 A man's ambition must be small, to write his name on sh*t house wall. -- Unknown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted July 9, 2017 Author Share Posted July 9, 2017 Why did the punk rocker cross the road? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 E. coli have their sh_t together. —on a WC wall, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine ...lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted July 9, 2017 Author Share Posted July 9, 2017 E. coli... ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the unwilling. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 There's a Sneggit joke here, I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted July 11, 2017 Author Share Posted July 11, 2017 Why did the punk rocker cross the road? Because he had a chicken stapled to his forehead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted July 11, 2017 Author Share Posted July 11, 2017 We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the unwilling. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing. This sounds SOOOO much like a programmers life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry.peterson Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 It's kinda like that pasta dish that didn't come out right from the very beginning. You keep adding spices and butter and toppings and cheese till it becomes a horrid mess. Then start over after 2 hours wasted time. Food related: if you look at the list of ingredients and find "artificial coloring" and "artificial flavor" listed, that means when they finished it looked bad and tasted terrible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Alimony... The high cost of lieaving... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Man who stand on toilet, high on pot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted May 10, 2018 Author Share Posted May 10, 2018 Just found this one. After crawling through the bowels of DSRs I must concur. :-) It is time to unmask the computing community as a Secret Society for the Creation and Preservation of Artificial Complexity. ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed in SoDak Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 I'm probably wondering why I called you all here. -Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 "What the hell was I thinking there? How in the world does this work at all?" - Every programmer, ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senior_falcon Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 "What the hell was I thinking there? How in the world does this work at all?" - Every programmer, ever. That sure describes me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC as potential programmers. They are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." Edsger W. Dijkstra As demonstrated by many people here, it's not impossible, but this statement emphasizes the point that the BASIC language paradigm alters the perspective of programming enough that you must fight hard against it to learn a new programming language model I completely disagree with with Dijkstra on this. BASIC is responsible for a whole generation of programmers that has not been repeated, despite how integrated computers have become in our daily lives. BASIC does have its problems, but it is no worse than any other language, and any many cases it is probably more approachable and usable. The biggest unfortunate part of BASIC, IMO, are the line-numbers (which are part of every BASIC that we got in the home computers). The loss of structure, both visually and logically, when using line numbers promotes the GOTO hell that everyone cites as "the problem" with BASIC. There are many dialects of BASIC, both old and new, that do not have or require line numbers and make the language much more appealing and usable. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."-- George Bernard Shaw 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 "How are you going to control the universe if you can't answer a few unsolvable problems?"-- Kevin Flynn in TRON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy. (BOO! AA does not show the timestamp: 395038032 -- July 9, 1982, 00:47:12) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senior_falcon Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 (edited) I completely disagree with with Dijkstra on this. BASIC is responsible for a whole generation of programmers that has not been repeated, despite how integrated computers have become in our daily lives. BASIC does have its problems, but it is no worse than any other language, and any many cases it is probably more approachable and usable. The biggest unfortunate part of BASIC, IMO, are the line-numbers (which are part of every BASIC that we got in the home computers). The loss of structure, both visually and logically, when using line numbers promotes the GOTO hell that everyone cites as "the problem" with BASIC. There are many dialects of BASIC, both old and new, that do not have or require line numbers and make the language much more appealing and usable. Dijkstra had similar sentiments about COBOL: "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." I was delighted to point this out to my brother who is a COBOL programmer. His response was something like, "Sure you can get away with some very sloppy programming in COBOL. But you can also do structured programming, and when you're part of a team that is developing or maintaining software, then you better learn how to do it that way!" Edited May 10, 2018 by senior_falcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 1979 Motorcycle magazine: "Man dearly loves to complicate things, no one is fascinated with a crescent wrench." Later in same article: "Anything that can be repaired with just a screw driver, pliers and bailing wire is a great piece of engineering." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed in SoDak Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 The more you add to the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the works! - Scotty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apersson850 Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 "I can only be in two places at the same time. Where I am and where I should be." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 One of my favorites Sent from my LG-H872 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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