Reflections on Trusting Trust Ken Thompson Reprinted from Communication of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8, August 1984, pp. 761-763. Copyright 1984, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Also appears in ACM Turing Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years 1965-1985 Copyright 1987 by the ACM press and Computers Under Attack: Intruders, Worms, and Viruses Copyright 1990 by the ACM press. This is a ...

Laugh along with GNU Table of contents Introduction Create More Laughs Laughs Software Documentation Music Poems The Fourth Estate Computing Science And Engineering Unclassified Disclaimer including a perfect Disclaimer! Humor Submission Guidelines Introduction This is a web page designed to provide some laughs to the working hackers. It contains software, documentation, music, poems, etc.

EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING 1. One man's constant is another man's variable. 2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process. 3. Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. 4. Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits. 5. If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways. 6.

The Tao Of Programming Translated by Geoffrey James Transcribed by Duke Hillard Transmitted by Anupam Trivedi, Sajitha Tampi, and Meghshyam Jagannath Re-html-ized and edited by Kragen Sittler Last modified 1996-04-10 or earlier Table of Contents The Silent Void The Ancient Masters Design Coding Maintenance Management Corporate Wisdom Hardware and Software Epilogue Book 1 - The Silent Void Thus ...

The Evolution of a Programmer High School/Jr.High 10 PRINT HELLO WORLD 20 END First year in College program Hello(input, output) begin writeln('Hello World') end. Senior year in College (defun hello (print (cons 'Hello (list 'World)))) New professional #include stdio.h void main(void) { char *message = { Hello , World }; int i; for(i = 0; i 2; ++i) printf( %s , message ); printf( \n ); } ...

Programming If teaching an individual to use a computer is bad, teaching someone to program one is worse. Him: I can download games like Quake and play them during lunch, you know. Me: We're only allowed 10 megs in our accounts, and the system administrators would notice you downloading a large file. Him: Nah, I could hack it so he couldn't. Me: Ah, so you are into hacking. By the way do you ...

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Computer Programming Humor Interviewer: Is studying computer science the best way to prepare to be a programmer Bill Gates: No, the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system. DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from ...

Holger's Humor Page Stolen from various sources throughout the Internet Note: This Webpage may contain bugs! You are vistor number: Table of contents Santa is a System Administrator One hundred bugs... What if IBM made toasters How to shoot in your foot using different programming langages Why C++ is like teenage sex. Does a LAN have a System Administrator The best of Dan Quayle. New Integer ...

22 Feb 2001 From the cover of Smart Computing: Here are some of things we've learned about: Setting up new systems .. Getting printers to print Wow! For all these years I was using my printer as a fish tank, never knowing that it could actually print! What a discovery, thanks to Smart Computing! 27 Nov 2000 Got a mystical message from my Outlook calendar today: Appointment occurs in the past .

LinkScan Finds Broken Links and Creates SiteMaps. Developed by Electronic Software Publishing Corporation (Elsop) ...

Fifty Ways to Hose Your Code Kind of by Paul Simon The problem's all inside your code she said to me; Recursion is easy if you take it logically. I'm here to help you if you're struggling to learn C, There must be fifty ways to hose your code. She said it's really not my habit to #include, And I hope my files won't be lost or misconstrued; But I'll recompile at the risk of getting screwed, There ...