Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, at 10:26pm, tom at buskey.name wrote:
>> ... "cargo cult programming" ...
> 
> I like that term.

  Just to prevent any mistaken impressions, let me state that it is not
original to me.  See:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/cargo-cult-programming.html

  See also:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/voodoo-programming.html
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/rain-dance.html
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/wave-a-dead-chicken.html

> When I was in High School I tried to learn UCSD Pascal on the Apple ][.

  Oh my!  I remember that thing.  All those nifty menu actions on the top of
the screen.  Krunching the disk after deleting a file.  What a crock.

> The compiler had a handy built in bugger.  If your code was bug free,
> sometimes it would helpfully add a bug or 2.

  That explains a few problems I had with it.  Fortunately, I already had a
copy of Turbo Pascal at the time, and was able to reduce my usage of the
Apple Pascal to a minimum.

  I miss Turbo Pascal.  :)

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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