Xref: utzoo comp.misc:5071 rec.humor:18820 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!rpi!pawl.rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.misc,rec.humor Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 89 20:22:47 GMT References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <532@geovision.UUCP> <4575@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> <799@n8emr.UUCP> <6255@saturn.ucsc.edu> <20373@coherent.com> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Organization: The Octagon Room Lines: 17 In-reply-to: darin@nova.laic.uucp's message of 11 Feb 89 01:30:30 GMT In article <20373@coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes: >Another subclass of computer folklore is the occasional barbed comment >that one can find when reading through source code. Operating-system >programmers seem particularly prone to witty, shamefaced, or other >slightly-off-center comments in their code. Ah yes. For another fine example of the wonderful earthiness which programmes sometimes enjoy, check the terminal.el code from the lisp directory of the standard GNU distribution. It is quite colourful in places. One of the things that I like about Stallman is that he didn't take out some of the personal barbs like a fascist. Maybe he left them for prudence, maybe because he thought the were funny. In either case, I respect that he left them alone. Dave -- tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@rpitsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edu