Humour the ComputerAndrew Davison MIT Press, 1995 - 226 Seiten You don't have to have a degree in computer science to enjoy this unique collection of funny stories, parodies, laughable true-life incidents, comic song lyrics, and jokey poems from the world of computing. Humour the Computer brings together a selection of some of the best computer-related humorous material culled from a variety of sources: news groups and FTP sites on the Internet, The New Yorker, Punch, New Scientist, BYTE, Datamation, Communications of the ACM, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and many more. Among other topics, the 70-odd assorted writings embrace the impact of computing on our lives, hilarious hardware, silly software, first encounters with computing, computer companies that we love, programming pains, and absurd academia. |
Inhalt
BOFH Part 1 | 10 |
Laptop in Colombo puts Campbell in the Soup | 25 |
Shakespeare on Programming | 29 |
The Case of the Bogus Expert Part 2 | 42 |
Zen and the Art of Software Documentation | 55 |
To My Darling Husband | 68 |
Computerbased Predictive Writing | 69 |
A Users View From The Trailing Edge | 82 |
If Architects Had to Work Like Programmers | 109 |
The VAXorcist | 125 |
The Complexity of Songs | 139 |
BOFH Part 4 | 154 |
The Case of the Bogus Expert Part 4 | 161 |
Creators Admit Unix And C Were A Hoax | 178 |
BOFH Part 5 | 191 |
Transcripts from the General Motors HelpLine | 210 |