Why I like being a programmer...

[robinbloke]

Compile program...
"2879 errors, 189 warnings."
Change three characters
"1 error, 2 warnings."

Now thats efficiency!

Comments

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

But how long is it going to take you to find the remaining error?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Took about 2 mins and around 15 more characters :)

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

What about the remaining 50 runtime/logic errors?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

You keep them there, it's called job security.

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

Someone should publish huge books full of programming script, with a single unobtrusive character out of place, and market them like Where's Wally books.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stormknight_/]

They did that in the 80's - they were home computer magazines, like C&VG.

They'd print 4-10 pages of 7pt code to type in - usually just lines and lines of "data" statements.

The real trick - there'd almost always be a mistake somewhere.

Does anyone know anyone who ever managed to type one of those in and get it to work?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I had a program published in one of those magazines, it worked :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stormknight_/]

Yeah, I had one published as well, and remember well that on reading through it, there were a couple of mistakes. Mistakes that weren't there in the code printout that I sent them.

Then again, I guess that the only way to get a printout from that silvery "bog roll" thermal paper into a format for a magazine was for someone to type it in again.

Put me off trying typing in any of those programs in the future.

[kizzie.livejournal.com]

had that one... .Complete idiots guide to javascript... the examples they give you to try had an error in somewhere so even when its typed out perfectly it didn't run... and it being right at the start of the book you had no idea what it was even supposed to do or why it went wrong

[fellcat.livejournal.com]

What were the three characters, missing semi-colons?

;-) (Been there, done that &c)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

A misnamed structure, changed it from DPLOG to PECLOG, thrilling huh?

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

How could you possibly take that level of excitment? :)