[LAU] A belated christmas song

[david]

andy baxter wrote:
> david wrote:
>> andy baxter wrote:
>>  
>>>
>>> Real programmers don't bother because the uni(multi)verse is in 
>>> perfectly imperfectly chaotic harmony anyway. Or something ... not 
>>> sure about this real programmers business. Ach! What was the point 
>>> anyway?
>>>     
>>
>> Real programmers know that somewhere in the quantum multiverse, the 
>> debugged and working program already exists, so they just find the 
>> appropriate universe and make that their reality.
>>   
> My uncle knew that anyway, but he invented a machine for making it 
> happen... ;)

Smart guy.

>> What is this "point" you refer to? Since when did discussion list 
>> emails have "points"? ;-)
>>   
> I have heard a rumour that there might have been a point once upon a 
> time. I was asking merely out of historical curiosity. ;)

You sound like a historian who switched to marketing. Per Dilbert, 
marketing people truly believe such rumors. Dilbert used one to reverse 
the transformation of a marketing guy into a weasel.

-- 
David
gnome at hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community