@Mike R said:
Ditto. Its... strange.
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>i can't figure out the image with the hand. there's something in there that looks like a zipper.</FONT>
@Mike R said:
Ditto. Its... strange.
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>i can't figure out the image with the hand. there's something in there that looks like a zipper.</FONT>
@dhromed said:
It looks slightly like an upside-down image of a DJ slapping a record on the table.
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>yeah, if the record had a zipper.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>the more i look at it, the more disturbed i get.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>does anyone else get that video ad at the right? it really disturbs me but i don't know why.</FONT>
@emptyset said:
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>honestly, i believe that magic is one of the few langauges whose interpreter cannot be written in magic.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>i'm sorry, very hungover. meant to say, i believe you cannot write the magic interpreter in magic.</FONT>
@your mom said:
@yours truly said:
"BAR"^F
F+13.. wait for it... "199K"! mega-awesome!
I forgot to mention, "199K"-13 gives you "BAR", right? Nope! it results in "198H"!
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>ah. it was only a matter of time before magic would raise its ugly head on the dailywtf. the handling of if/else was always bizarre, and in a function subroutine you can have your choice of local variables A-Z. if you want a more descriptive variable name, feel free to use the system's local variables, which were actually global. manage your own namespace because a computer can't do it for you.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>at the old company i used to work for, they had a new version of magic/mumps which enabled the programmer to enter the early 1980s, with a gui. the environment was very similar in feel to smalltalk, minus the objects. gui programming in this system was similar to writing HTML 1.0, except that you had to couple the GUI to (what they called) an 'object'. 'objects' were basically structs, and they system took care of maintaining the 'database' of 'objects' by writing out flat-files to disk. the format was basically to write out the contents of an instance as a string. when it changed, write out another string. in this way you get a historical record and thrash drives. indexing of the database is an amazing topic that deserves its own story.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>honestly, i believe that magic is one of the few langauges whose interpreter cannot be written in magic.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>i don't really understand what was happening in boston in the early 70's, but i'm guessing that neil pappalardo was probably snorting enough cocaine to kill a small elephant when he came up with the idea for magic. his philosophy was that if you own all aspects of a language and system, and charge your customers support fees, then you can indefinitely maintain a cocaine habit and develop some of the worst applications actually used by businesses.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>a programmer has to not only grapple with code that makes seasoned perl programmers from eastern europe cringe, but also deal with interfaces that shift on the whims of eight or so assclowns in boston that think they can duplicate java and hold an MBA degree at the same time.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>for the curious, to recreate the experience of programming in magic, grab some old C code, before 1980. then, eliminate all type specifiers except for int and char (you'll pointers to address values on the stack), do not use macros, do not use the standard library, you are not allowed to use for or while loops (only do,while loops). all functions must have void return values. then, try to re-write the old program under these conditions. every three to five weeks, take 10 random functions and either change the order and content of their parameters or eliminate them entirely.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>that's pretty much it.</FONT>
@braindigitalis said:
but then what it does boggles the mind -- it adds a RANDOM number between 1.25 and 1.75 to the result... now that is just odd, whoever heard of PAYMENT systems utilizing random numbers?
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>ah, i've got it. this was modified from the code that added the paid lunch hour in it. if you randomly add between 15-45 minutes to your day, you can also account for bathroom breaks and the like. or, alternatively, somebody really wanted to leave a little early and beat traffic.</FONT>
@dhromed said:
It looks slightly like an upside-down image of a DJ slapping a record on the table.
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>yeah, if the record had a zipper.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>the more i look at it, the more disturbed i get.</FONT>
@Mike R said:
Ditto. Its... strange.
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>i can't figure out the image with the hand. there's something in there that looks like a zipper.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>does anyone else get that video ad at the right? it really disturbs me but i don't know why.</FONT>
@Richard Nixon said:
What a left-handed compliment; I am highly offended.
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>i think you've just offended all lefties with that compliment.</FONT>
@bugmenot said:
<FONT size=3>Since everyone on here seems to think that they're the best programmers in the world I'd like to see what people come up for with this problem.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=6>STOP. LOOK. LISTEN.</FONT>
@Richard Nixon said:
no insight to offer here but I felt like being a jerk.
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>i had to do a double-take on this line. i think it's the funniest thing you've ever posted. not intentionally funny.</FONT>
@Richard Nixon said:
Least humorous examples to appear in this thread yet. You're not doing anything to get into my good graces with these kind of efforts junior.
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>one might even say he's not doing anything to get on your good graces at all.</FONT>