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• Quote #655 Object-oriented programming is popular in big companies, because it suits the way they write software.
  At big companies, software tends to be written by large (and frequently changing) teams of mediocre programmers....
• happily adv. Of software, used to emphasize that a program is unaware of some important fact about its environme
  either because it has been fooled into believing a lie, or because it doesn't care....
• To live and die in scenes like this, With some we 've left behind us.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- As slow our Ship...
• A manager asked a programmer how long it would take him to finish the program on which he was working.
  I will be finished tomorrow," the programmer promptly replied....
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• C++ supports Object-Oriented Programming roughly as much as COBOL supports Functional Programming.
  Shlomi Fish...
• What they say: What they mean: A major technological breakthrough.
  .. Back to the drawing board. Developed after years of research Discovered by pure accident....
• live data: n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it.
  One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program key...
• Life! we 've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weathe
  'T is hard to part when friends are dear,-- Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tea...