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Post by rubl on Oct 21, 2017 18:47:54 GMT 7
I was reminded of this because I'm currently going through some older source code to understand and correct problems some have been programming around ingeniously (i.e. bypass) rather than getting someone to fix it. I thought of calling it a Reliability Improvement Program to prolong extend the useful life of a few computer systems, but maybe I have to go for another Acronym  Keith Laumer in his 'Retief' series stories was good at Acronyms to suggest some 'bureaucracy' in the CDT (Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne) like . MUDDLE - Manpower Utilization Directorate, Division of Libraries and Education . MEDDLE - Motorized Equipment Depot, Division of Loans . SCROUNGE - Special Committee for Rehabilitation and Overhaul of Under-developed Nations' General Economies Here a few 'real life' examples: "Antonin Scalia School of Law" iotwreport.com/acronyms-gone-wrong/www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/articles/acronyms-people-often-get-hilariously-wrongwww.memecenter.com/fun/7176475/abbreviation-gone-wrong |
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Post by smokie36 on Oct 21, 2017 19:35:08 GMT 7
Structured programming is for professionals.
I much prefer a quick fix then a few beers.
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Post by rubl on Oct 21, 2017 19:44:32 GMT 7
Structured programming is for professionals. I much prefer a quick fix then a few beers. Some customers are picky and demand lasting corrections and solutions. PS a quick fix may cause a loss of your money in a transaction gone wrong, so I'll take my time to do this, the work on my Reliability Improvement Program |
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Post by Soutpeel on Oct 21, 2017 20:08:20 GMT 7
A very accurate acronym one suspects ......REMF but some worthy of mention
TWATS...transport workers and tautliner specialists
MILF....Moro Islamic Liberation Front
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Post by smokie36 on Oct 21, 2017 20:31:59 GMT 7
Structured programming is for professionals. I much prefer a quick fix then a few beers. Some customers are picky and demand lasting corrections and solutions. PS a quick fix may cause a loss of your money in a transaction gone wrong, so I'll take my time to do this, the work on my Reliability Improvement Program No wonder you've no time for socialising. Aren't you close to retirement?...time for a quick fix and a Taco Tuesday my friend! |
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Post by me on Oct 21, 2017 21:26:27 GMT 7
Some customers are picky and demand lasting corrections and solutions. PS a quick fix may cause a loss of your money in a transaction gone wrong, so I'll take my time to do this, the work on my Reliability Improvement Program No wonder you've no time for socialising. Aren't you close to retirement?...time for a quick fix and a Taco Tuesday my friend! He cannot afford to retire.......the 0.0000000001c overflow....... |
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Post by rubl on Oct 21, 2017 22:29:53 GMT 7
Some customers are picky and demand lasting corrections and solutions. PS a quick fix may cause a loss of your money in a transaction gone wrong, so I'll take my time to do this, the work on my Reliability Improvement Program No wonder you've no time for socialising. Aren't you close to retirement?...time for a quick fix and a Taco Tuesday my friend! On average I still have too much fun. It's interesting to be about the oldest in the office with lots of colleagues and people at customer sites being in their mid-twenties, mostly female as well. Gives a special cachet to ones status especially here in Thailand. Of course, since I'm a (software) technician I'm very informal with the other workers. What strikes me as interesting is at times the lack of understanding what a computer does. This is by people who studied computer science. Seems nowadays bits and bytes are out and you manipulate 'objects' without worrying what those objects are. Byte-order? Structure alignment? The need to 'saving bytes' when the server has 16Gb or more anyway? Seems my programs are somewhat smaller, have more checks and less assumptions, are better documented and having a better performance than stuff written with C# or C++. To be honest when I look at some of the programs I wrote thirty years ago it looks like I wasn't really that much better in my innocence  |
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Post by smokie36 on Oct 22, 2017 6:06:21 GMT 7
No wonder you've no time for socialising. Aren't you close to retirement?...time for a quick fix and a Taco Tuesday my friend! On average I still have too much fun. It's interesting to be about the oldest in the office with lots of colleagues and people at customer sites being in their mid-twenties, mostly female as well. Gives a special cachet to ones status especially here in Thailand. Of course, since I'm a (software) technician I'm very informal with the other workers. What strikes me as interesting is at times the lack of understanding what a computer does. This is by people who studied computer science. Seems nowadays bits and bytes are out and you manipulate 'objects' without worrying what those objects are. Byte-order? Structure alignment? The need to 'saving bytes' when the server has 16Gb or more anyway? Seems my programs are somewhat smaller, have more checks and less assumptions, are better documented and having a better performance than stuff written with C# or C++. To be honest when I look at some of the programs I wrote thirty years ago it looks like I wasn't really that much better in my innocence  OMG....rubl is part of the Cobol!!!! |
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Post by rubl on Oct 22, 2017 14:53:48 GMT 7
On average I still have too much fun. It's interesting to be about the oldest in the office with lots of colleagues and people at customer sites being in their mid-twenties, mostly female as well. Gives a special cachet to ones status especially here in Thailand. Of course, since I'm a (software) technician I'm very informal with the other workers. What strikes me as interesting is at times the lack of understanding what a computer does. This is by people who studied computer science. Seems nowadays bits and bytes are out and you manipulate 'objects' without worrying what those objects are. Byte-order? Structure alignment? The need to 'saving bytes' when the server has 16Gb or more anyway? Seems my programs are somewhat smaller, have more checks and less assumptions, are better documented and having a better performance than stuff written with C# or C++. To be honest when I look at some of the programs I wrote thirty years ago it looks like I wasn't really that much better in my innocence OMG....rubl is part of the Cobol!!!! My diploma "practical COBOL programming" is dated 1982-08-20.  |
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Post by smokie36 on Oct 22, 2017 14:57:23 GMT 7
Do you have a large collection of wooly jumpers Uncle rubl?
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Post by me on Oct 22, 2017 16:20:10 GMT 7
OMG....rubl is part of the Cobol!!!! My diploma "practical COBOL programming" is dated 1982-08-20. SO WHY IS IT THAT YOU DO NOT INDENT YOUR POSTS INDENTING THINGS EXCESSIVELY IS NEEDED FOR US COMPILERS
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Post by rubl on Oct 22, 2017 22:56:42 GMT 7
My diploma "practical COBOL programming" is dated 1982-08-20. SO WHY IS IT THAT YOU DO NOT INDENT YOUR POSTS INDENTING THINGS EXCESSIVELY IS NEEDED FOR US COMPILERS
Good question! Answer of course is 'because I moved on' #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> void main(int argc, char *argv[]) { (void)printf("Hello World!\n");
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Post by rubl on Oct 22, 2017 23:02:00 GMT 7
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Post by me on Oct 22, 2017 23:38:02 GMT 7
SO WHY IS IT THAT YOU DO NOT INDENT YOUR POSTS INDENTING THINGS EXCESSIVELY IS NEEDED FOR US COMPILERS
Good question! Answer of course is 'because I moved on' #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> void main(int argc, char *argv[]) { (void)printf("Hello World!\n");
exit(0); } Ahhh that makes more sense.....none of that 12 spaces wasted one every line of a COBOL program...it was 12 wasn't it.....only remember being showed it as an obsolete artifact. |
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Post by rubl on Oct 23, 2017 11:23:08 GMT 7
Good question! Answer of course is 'because I moved on' #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> void main(int argc, char *argv[]) { (void)printf("Hello World!\n");
exit(0); } Ahhh that makes more sense.....none of that 12 spaces wasted one every line of a COBOL program...it was 12 wasn't it.....only remember being showed it as an obsolete artifact. Too long ago, but I remember dropping an Algol-65 program on punched cards and calling myself lucky I had religiously put in sequence numbers at the end of the 80 character row Now those really were the days en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming_in_the_punched_card_eraPS one of the reasons I moved on was that in the 80tish COBOL was said to be dead. Well, I understand that a large number of programs exist which are written in COBOL and experienced COBOL programmers are still being looked for. Imagine coercing someone out of retirement to do some COBOL program maintenance  |
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