At 09:12 -0500 on 08/09/2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Why
computer languages need to have specific parsing ru:
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 06:59:36 -0500, John McKown wrote:
Wife: Go to the store and buy a quart of milk. If they have avocados, get
six.
Husband: OK
Husband comes back with 6 quarts of milk
Wife: What? Why did you get 6 quarts of milk?
Husband: They had avocados.
Obviously the husband is a systems programmer. And the wife is an end user.
I believe it was Phil Payne who once told the story of being given an
assignment:
Promote all employees in pay grade A to pay grade B. Then promote
all employees in pay grade B to pay grade C.
He did as instructed.
As I am sure most of us know the correct set of instructions should
have been to do the B->C change (leaving no B employees) and THEN do
the A->B change.
Following the supplied set makes both A and B grades C (since when
you do the B->C upgrade you have no way of only handling the old B
paygrade employees and also upgrade the old A paygrade ones).
And this may have have been reported here, or it may be urban legend:
A shop set a task scheduled, at 0159 on a certain Sunday in Fall, to reset
the localtime to 0059. Employees were astonished to come to work at
0730 on Monday and find the system reporting the time as 0130 on
Sunday. (If the coding is correctly designed, there is no such thing as
a semiannual "time change".)
The instructions reset the time every hour once 0159 initially
occurs. The correct trigger should have been doing it at 0559 GMT/UT.
That would have only done one time change.
As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.
Case-sensitive?
-- gil
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