I’m reading a hilarious (to me) book titled How Not to Program in C++: 111 Broken Programs and 3 Working Ones, or Why Does 2+2=5986. Each chapter contains a small C++ program that contains one of many possible common programming mistakes for you to discover (answers are at the back). After each chapter is a humerous anecdote. One of my favourites is a poem:
Ode to a Maintenance Programmer
Once more I travel that lone dark road
into someone else’s impossible code
Through “if” and “switch” and “do” and “while”
that twist and turn for mile and mile
Clever code full of traps and tricks
and you must discover how it ticks
And then I emerge to ask anew,
“What the heck does this program do?”
Happy Birthday to Barry who is 26 today! Kick his ass 26 times if you see him 😉