Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Posted by Sickboy at 1:21 PM
Thought for the day :


" The greatest programming project of all took six days; on the seventh day the programmer rested. "

9 comments:

Mark M said...

I think I used to know a programmer like that... On the eighth day, the programmer delivered the binaries to the software testing lab, where they found an extraordinarily large number of severe defects. "Didn't you unit test?" the lead tester asked. -- "Well, it compiled and linked, and the binaries are good -- very good, if I don't say so myself. What more do I need to do?" -- "Auughh!!!" cried the lead tester. "No wonder it only took you six days! You only did half the job!"

7:38 PM CDT
steve butt said...

i think this is a christian quote.

10:07 PM CDT
Scott said...

Mark your comment seems more literary than usual, and I don't recognize its source.

The "unit test" link was fun.

8:00 AM CDT
dad-e~O said...

Mark, are you talking about God?
I figured out that the OP was a blibical reference and my WTF was sorta tounge in cheek, but now I'm just confused.

9:19 AM CDT
Mark M said...

I'm just being a computer geek... Scott, the reference to the binaries being "very good" is a paraphrase of Genesis, Chapter 1. The rest of it is probably similar to something that was said in my workplace.

Because it's so hard to just look at a complex computer program (which might consist of over 100,000 lines of code) and figure out what it does, all these processes have been developed to ensure its quality... If we try to draw the analogy: Programmer : God :: Software development : Creation... the difference is that if a mere mortal tried to program as fast as God, it will never, ever work, ever.

2:06 PM CDT
dad-e~O said...

???
I guess being sort of higher power ambivilent make it hard for me to keep up here

the devil in ms jones, mike ness

8:54 PM CDT
Mark M said...

Yeah, I'm kind of higher power ambivalent myself.

If you're having trouble keeping up, the blame lies with me. Using SAT-analogy notation in my comment was a dubious idea. Sorry if I gave anyone the urge to sharpen a No. 2 pencil.

11:26 AM CDT
Michael said...

But Mark, I got that one right. It was d, wasn't it? I swear it was d. I hate these damn standardized tests.

11:23 PM CDT
dad-e~O said...

the one distinct advantage of going to the school of hard knocks... no SAT's
of course I don't make any money either...

2:09 PM CDT

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