Day: December 11, 2012

I am no longer a programmer. My skillset has rusted to such a degree that it is no longer useful. But I still occasionally follow the field, broadly speaking. There is much writing, over at The Reg, that can make me laugh on a regular basis. But this bit… wow. A sample, at length (brimming over with inside jokes and strange, nerdly, programmer-humor):

Zany adventures with Zarco and Marco

1. And the users of Delphi had become old with the passage of years, and had taken to sensible shoes, and elasticated jeans, and cosy Saturdayevenings in with BBC4.
2. For their grizzled pates did sparkle in the morning sunshine, like the surface of that glittery sandstone stuff that one sometimes notices in rocks by the seaside.
3. Yet still the users of Delphi turned out Windows code that was not so dusty, and demanded no runtime, and could fetch its backside off the disk and be begging for input before certain alternatives could so much as put up a 'Please wait' dialog.
4. And if a few users of Delphi had turned their hands to writing JavaScript-that-is-the-assembly-language-of-the-internet, then most had not followed these filthy traitors into the perverse ways of the curly bracket.
5. For it is well-known that JavaScript is the most perverse of all the perverse curly-bracket languages, that causes its users to cry Wat! and despair.

That little thing at the "Wat!" link is hilarious, too. Really. Trust me.