Re: Ten Commandments of Software Engineering (Humor)

[slp@uno.edu]

In article <3k4bfq$vg6@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com>, scott_ankrum@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>I saw this elsewhere, but thought it belonged here.
>
>    Originally posted by: tkrader@aol.com (TKRader)
>    on the Newsgroup: comp.software-eng
>    Date: 10 Mar 1995 09:37:08 -0500
>
>I found this "bit" of humor posted on the wall outside my office.
>Fundamentalists, Mormons, and Scientologists need not read this as it
>might be somewhat offensive.
>C/C++ proselytes don't bother flaming me, either. ;+>
>Alas, I know the guy who wrote this very well.  He's a man of infinite
>jest.
>
>Tim
>

[Deleted commandments in the name of bandwidth, but ROTFL]

>
>And all the managers saw the thundering of Ada zealots and trade studies
>and symposium papers and the smoking of the programmers fingers over their
>keyboards, and when the managers saw the increased productivity they stood
>in awe.  And the managers said unto the computer scientologists, speak not
>of this to our VPs lest we be fired for not thinking of this ourselves.

Very cute, but only one thought, 10 is not a power of two, shouldn't 
there be 8 or maybe 16 of them? ;-)


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Best,


-* Stephen *-
Stephen Posey
SLP@uno.edu
University of New Orleans