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Monday, June 13, 2005 - 11:07am

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Dear Michael M.,

Your joke started "after reading yet another post from..." and I thought, "Oh... so I'm the voluble one now... ha!"

Really nice joke that was. If I got started that sooner, I could be calling myself ADD ONE TO NUMBER right now.

Some more jokes on this genre (shamelessly lifted from forgotten sites of long ago...):

A)
PROGRAMMERS' DRINKING SONG
100 little bugs in the code,
100 bugs in the code,
fix one bug, compile it again,
101 little bugs in the code.

101 little bugs in the code....
(Repeat until bugs = 0)

B)
THE PROGRAMMERS' CHEER
Shift to the left, shift to the right!
Pop up, push down, byte, byte, byte!

C)
And a mathematical one (but of course!):

Q: Why do programmers always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up?
A: Because DEC 25 = OCT 31

Hope you enjoyed these.

Incrementally yours,
num++

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Monday, June 13, 2005 - 8:01pm

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Computering is one of the "traditional" Objectivist careers. Not quite up there with architect and electrical engineer, being a programmer allowed some esteem for being very technical, extremely Aristotlean, and even today un-government-regulated.

Programming is often called "mathematical" (as num++ did), but we know about the mathematician who took a programming class and was unable to get past LET X = X + 1.

So the programmer, the mechanical engineer and the electrical engineer were traveling down the deserted country road late at night, when they had a blowout. The mechanical engineer pulls the car over and gets out and starts getting the jack and stuff out and finds that there is no spare. The electrical engineer looks around and points to the power lines, two rows of smaller poles converging to a line of large metal ones. "The town's this way, about five miles. We'll be there in a couple of hours at most." The programmer says, "Wait a minute! Why not just run it back up the road to the blow out and try it again with the windows rolled down?"