Geek Scripture

At first, there was the bit. And the bit shifted left, and the bit shifted right, and there was the byte. The byte grew into a word, and then into double word. And the developer saw the work and it was good. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

On the next day, the developer came back to the work and couldn’t figure out what he was thinking last night, and spent the whole day figuring that out.

Print | posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 6:48 AM

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# re: Geek Scripture 11/19/2007 10:17 AM Mark Lennox

:D

Reminds me of my PERL days....


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# re: Geek Scripture 11/19/2007 9:38 PM Dom

Amen to that... 8- P


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# re: Geek Scripture 11/20/2007 4:48 AM Oran

And on the seventh day, he shipped.

“The reason God was able to create the world in seven days is because there was no installed base.” – Wim Elfrink, Cisco
http://www.douglasp.com/blog/2007/11/11/WhyCreationOnlyTookSevenDays.aspx


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# re: Geek Scripture 11/21/2007 2:38 PM Joe

Thus the developer created comments, and saw that they were good.


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# re: Geek Scripture 11/21/2007 6:26 PM Pierre Henri

And on the next week, the maintenance hell started :D


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# re: Geek Scripture 11/21/2007 10:43 PM Jeremy Gray

And then Joe's comments were replaced with refactoring for clarity, ending Pierre's maintenance hell.

Just remember folks, the vast majority of comments are a code smell.

:D


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# re: Geek Scripture 11/22/2007 1:33 AM ace

:)


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# re: Geek Scripture 11/23/2007 8:20 PM Henry

In fact, God estimated seven days (it can be that hard, he said) and then took 4 billion years to finish the job.

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