Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP (Wayne A. Christopher) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Yet Another Real Programs Joke (Actually the first ones...) Message-ID: <228@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-May-85 21:41:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbcad.228 Posted: Thu May 9 21:41:25 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 12-May-85 11:37:36 EDT Distribution: net Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 13 Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them? Real Programs aren't interactive, because they take all their input as command line arguments. Real Programs execute in kernel mode. Real Programs run in the registers, it's faster. [DEC mainframes only] (Actually, the last two are Mike Meyers'...) Any others? Wayne