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Title: Laws of Computer Programming
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Published: Mar 30, 2020
Author: Hoare (1980)
Post Date: 2020-03-30 00:47:35 by Esso
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1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete. 2. Any given program costs more and takes longer. 3. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed. 4. If a program is useless, it will have to be sold at a much higher cost. 5. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory. 6. The value of a program is proportional to the uselessness of its purpose. 7. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it. 8. Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers cannot write in English. Poster Comment: Packer's Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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#1. To: Pinguinite (#0)
This one's for you ol' buddy! Crap, I'm bored. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Oh crap! That is funny, I never thought about in those terms. (Edit) And building technology has moved ever so slowly. They could do so much better. They have some, but when the move to McMansions happened, they gave up innovation for floor-space. I had one client that I helped with the design of his his "Dream House," I asked him if he was going to get his wife a riding sweeper. OMG, what a project that was! Ol' Skillethead's waiting for me in Valhalla, or hiding. Nobody likes to hear, "I told you so!" Learned a lot about what not to do in building houses though. KISS almost never fails. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. At a recent computer exposition, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: “If General Motors had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.” In response to Bill’s comments, GM issued a press release stating: “If General Motors had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
I guess we don't need Bill for cars now (we'll leave the vaccines to him). We've got Elon! Gates squared. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. Whew, concentrated cynicism! Do ppl hate their puters that much (even allowing for hyperbole), do any of them actually stop that often? Sounds like programmers have a miserable, jaded life. _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
The list is a bit old. Computers are more reliable these days. Even Windows runs better now than it used to.
That sounds like on the TV show Green Acres when Lisa was trying to learn how to drive a car. She called the gear shift lever for the automatic transmission a "PRNDL". LOL "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
My first PC had 4 (four) kilobytes of RAM. Storage was on a cassette recorder (if you didn't have the volume set just right, tough luck). I learned BASIC on it.
I had Win10 for a while. Went back to my old XP. One day when I'm feeling ambitious I'm going to set up a Linux box (I'm an old UNIX guy). And every couple of shows Oliver would tell her, "I didn't marry you for your brains." How about the time he made a head gasket for the apple truck out of Lisa's pancake slag? My wife and I watched quite a few episodes on VHS or DVD -- can't remember which -- several years ago. Hate to think how many brain cells we killed off doing that.
Especially when you consider Fred Ziffel and Arnold the Pig. LOL "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
I remember saving basic programs to a cassette tape. The TRS-80's had that feature. The more advanced one's anyway. Took a few minutes to load your program, usually the size of 1 or 2 sheets of paper if it were typed out into the computer. Had forgotten about that till you mentioned it.
There are very few excuses left for anyone still using Windows.
Yup, that's about all that's left on the list.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#2. To: Esso (#1)
#3. To: Pinguinite, 4um (#2)
(Edited)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#4. To: Esso (#1)
#5. To: Pinguinite (#4)
(Edited)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#6. To: Pinguinite (#4)
#7. To: NeoconsNailed (#6)
#8. To: Pinguinite (#4)
Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
#9. To: Pinguinite (#2)
Freedom is a social skill.
#10. To: Pinguinite (#7)
Even Windows runs better now than it used to.
Freedom is a social skill.
#11. To: BTP Holdings (#8)
the TV show Green Acres
#12. To: StraitGate (#11)
Hate to think how many brain cells we killed off doing that.
#13. To: Anthem (#9)
#14. To: Anthem (#10)
One day when I'm feeling ambitious I'm going to set up a Linux box (I'm an old UNIX guy). 
#15. To: Pinguinite (#14)
There are very few excuses left for anyone still using Windows.
Freedom is a social skill.
#16. To: Anthem (#15)
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