Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

[Tom Buskey]

bscott at ntisys.com said:
>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:

Noted.

>> 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.

And dealing with a 40 column screen on a virtual 80 column one.  
Swapping back and forth.

>> 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 had a Zenith Z-100 in college.  I managed to get a copy of p-System 
for that too.  And M/PM, CPM-85, CPM-86 in addition to MS-DOS.  I don't 
want to go back though :-)

>
>  I miss Turbo Pascal.  :)

Your editor, compiler, debugger and code all on 1 360k floppy.  I used 
to have Turbo C on a 1.2MB floppy too.


-- 
-------
Tom Buskey