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- From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
- Subject: Re: Computer Superstition
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.021936.4993@geovision.gvc.com>
- Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
- Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
- References: <10292323.7317.11306@kcbbs.gen.nz>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:19:36 GMT
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- In article <10292323.7317.11306@kcbbs.gen.nz>, Murray_Moffatt@kcbbs.gen.nz (Murray Moffatt) writes:
- |> We've all heard of common superstitions such as not walking under ladders
- |> and throwing salt over your left shoulder if you spill some, but are
- |> there any superstitions to do with computers?
-
- What about that line in the old "Real Programmers" file - from memory:
- Real Programmers don't clear the registers twice before using them. If you
- insist they will clear your registers - with a hammer.
-
- I once asked somebody about clearing registers twice, and he said that there
- was a particularly bletcherous dinosaur (possibly IBM/360) that you had to
- do that to _make_sure_ the register was actually clear.
-
- (The reminisence is _really_ foggy - but when has that ever stopped anybody
- in this group?)
-
- --
- Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com
- (This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
- "I don't have time to think it through: I've got to get this code written!"
-