From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
Subject: Re: Easily-Read C++?
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 10:10:44 EDT
Date: 1994-10-12T10:10:44-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1994Oct12.101044.15366@sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37gnho$nbt@watnews1.watson.ibm.com
In article <37gnho$nbt@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> ncohen@watson.ibm.com writes:
>The runner up comes from an assembly-language program:
>
> xor R3,R4,R3 THIS IS TRICKY.
I forget the code, but the comment that I'll never forget is
; DO A GOOD JOB ON THE SIGN BIT
However, my prize for all-time ingenuity in coding goes to the
programmer who was a great fan of Joni Mitchell. The labels
in his program were the titles of her songs, broken up into
six-character chunks. Ah, the joy of participating in a code
walkthrough, and coming out of it knowing only that Joni Mitchell
wrote "Song to a Seagull" - or, should I say, SONGTO ASEAGU LL...
In a similar spirit, I inserted into the proof copy of the Ada
Reference Manual the sentence
The private type CHIPMUNK is predefined.
Alas, Jean noticed (he noticed everything).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1994-10-12 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-10-05 3:00 Easily-Read C++? Ken Garlington
1994-10-05 9:42 ` Pierre Castori
1994-10-05 13:28 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-06 2:20 ` Benjamin Ketcham
[not found] ` <CxDL8H.KGE@csn.org>
[not found] ` <milodCxH2E4.7F4@netcom.com>
[not found] ` <CxHJv0.Kw0@csn.org>
1994-10-12 17:03 ` John DiCamillo
[not found] ` <DAG.94Oct11080229@bellman.control.lth.se>
[not found] ` <37du0k$ir2@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>
1994-10-12 3:19 ` Attractive comments better? R_Tim_Coslet
1994-10-13 1:35 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-05 14:26 ` Easily-Read C++? Eric S. Sessoms
1994-10-05 17:47 ` Kevin Cline
1994-10-05 22:02 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-05 22:23 ` Richard Kenner
[not found] ` <124377@cup.portal.com>
1994-10-11 18:11 ` David Weller
1994-10-11 18:43 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 13:15 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-12 14:10 ` Robert Firth [this message]
1994-10-13 19:33 ` John D. Reading
1994-10-13 0:51 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
1994-10-05 18:24 ` Magnus Kempe
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[not found] ` <371a3p$nos@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>
[not found] ` <1994Oct7.153254.29848@swlvx2.msd.ray.com>
[not found] ` <374uke$8mo@delphi.cs.ucla.edu>
[not found] ` <37bno4$ko4@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>
1994-10-11 13:00 ` Robert Firth
1994-10-11 13:44 ` Casper H.S. Dik
1994-10-11 19:03 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 16:38 ` John DiCamillo
1994-10-11 18:52 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 13:49 ` Norman H. Cohen
[not found] ` <37eej8$6ie@siberia.gatech.edu>
1994-10-11 18:55 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 13:35 ` John M. Mills
1994-10-12 19:48 ` Robert Dewar
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1994-10-11 17:50 ` Norman H. Cohen
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[not found] ` <CxBvq7.GrH@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
[not found] ` <37bnic$kj2@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>
1994-10-11 18:02 ` Norman H. Cohen
[not found] ` <1994Oct7.110309@di.epfl.ch>
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[not found] ` <1994Oct7.210111.4494@nosc.mil>
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1994-10-12 17:37 ` "Tag" (Was: Easily-Read C++? (NOT)) David Emery
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1994-10-11 18:37 ` Easily-Read C++? Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-12 16:54 ` David Emery
1994-10-14 21:13 ` Kevin Cline
1994-10-21 14:38 ` Thomas M. Breuel
1994-10-22 3:10 ` Michael M. Bishop
1994-10-26 0:39 ` -mlc-+Schilling J.
1994-10-27 14:54 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-27 15:35 ` Richard Kenner
1994-10-27 23:09 ` Robert Dewar
1994-11-01 21:19 ` Adam Beneschan
1994-11-02 0:46 ` Bob Duff
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1994-10-12 3:06 Easily-Read C++ Ken Garlington
1994-10-14 10:50 Easily-Read C++? Bob Wells #402
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