I'm still kinda surprised that silly power users or things don't insert something like that into the code of their GCC when they bootstrap their compilers, just to freak people out. ;)
I'd like to hear more stories about working with IBM 370s and S/390s, and more than the standard story of dropping a stack of punchcards and losing the order. ;) Buy you a beer, Howard? :) " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith - Huntsville, Alabama metropolitan area USA On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 06/12/2014 02:24 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: >> >>> "we ever develop software that can further refine its own programming" >>> >>> sounds like a compiler. >>> >>> >> Not like the IBM 370 COBOL compiler I once worked on: >> >> "Probable user error, correct and re-submit" -- thanks a lot. >> >> Howard > > > One of my teachers worked on the first compilers for NASA. He said they > had errors something like "You forgot a closing parenthesis you idiot", but > they made them take the last part out. > > Paul > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
