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From: galit@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Galit P. Elkies)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,rec.humor
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 17 Feb 89 16:49:34 GMT
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Reply-To: galit@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Galit P. Elkies)
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>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. 
>

Oh yes.  In a programming class I took last semester, my group handed in a
project we were all very proud of, and at the demo we seemed to really
impress the ta...  Then, after we left, we looked at our hard copy of the
code and found the following incriminating comment left over from a month
back on one subroutine:

/* This is NOT tested at all ! */

:-%
oops.....  (coincidentally also the name of our program -- Our OPS-5)


galit