Jajaja - chistes

[Kuk]

Acusan a la policía de Australia de piratería

[Kuk]

¿A quién le gustaría jugar una partida? :p

[Hrmcobol]

Y el agua le gana al Te !! jajajaja

[Kuk]

@Hrmcobol, ¡Bendita ingenuidad!

[Kuk]

La evolución de la programación

[Kuk]

Loa analistas chutan

[Kuk]

La verdadera evolución ¡¡¡

[Kuk]

Cómo cambian los tiempos

[Adrianeloy]

[Kuk]

https://www.calvin.edu/~rpruim/cours...c.lang.fun.txt

>>Creators Admit Unix and C Language Hoax

In an announcement that stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis
Ritchie and Brian Kernighan admitted the Unix operating system and C
programming language created by them is an elaborate prank, kept alive over
20 years. Speaking at the recent UnixWorld Software Development Forum,
Thompson revealed the following:

"In 1969, AT&T had just terminated their work with the GE/Honeywell/AT&T
Multics project. Brian and I had started work with an early release of Pascal
from Professor Niklaus Wirth's ETH labs in Switzerland and we were impressed
with its elegant simplicity and power. Dennis had just finished reading
'Bored of the Rings', a National Lampoon parody of the Tolkien's 'Lord of the
Rings' trilogy.

"As a lark, we decided to do parodies of the Multics environment and Pascal.
Dennis and I were responsible for the operating environment. We looked at
Multics and designed the new OS to be as complex and cryptic as possible to
maximize casual users' frustration levels, calling it Unix as a parody of
Multics, as well as other more risque allusions. We sold the terse command
language to novitiates by telling them that it saved them typing.

"Then Dennis and Brian worked on a warped version of Pascal, called 'A'. 'A'
looked a lot like Pascal, but elevated the notion of the direct memory
address (which Wirth had banished) to the central concept of the language.
This was Dennis's contribution, and he in fact coined the term "pointer" as
an innocuous sounding name for a truly malevolent construct.

"Brian must be credited with the idea of having absolutely no standard I/O
specification: this ensured that at least 50% of the typical commercial
program would have to be recoded when changing hardware platforms. Brian was
also responsible for pitching this lack of I/O as a feature: it allowed us to
describe the language as "truly portable".

"When we found others were actually creating real programs with A, we removed
compulsory type-checking on function arguments. Later, we added a notion we
called "casting": this allowed the programmer to treat an integer as though
it were a 50k user-defined structure. When we found that some programmers
were simply not using pointers, we eliminated the ability to pass structures
to functions, enforcing their use in even the Simplest applications.

"We sold this, and many other features, as enhancements to the efficiency of
the language. In this way, our prank evolved into B, BCPL, and finally C. We
stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax:

for
(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=3DC;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("|"+(*u/4)%2);

"At one time, we joked about selling this to the Soviets to set their
computer science progress back 20 or more years. Unfortunately, AT&T and
other US corporations actually began using Unix and C. We decided we'd better
keep mum, assuming it was just a passing phase. In fact, it's taken US
companies over 20 years to develop enough expertise to generate useful
applications using this 1960's technological parody.

"We are impressed with the tenacity of the general Unix and C programmer. In
fact, Brian, Dennis and I have never ourselves attempted to write a
commercial application in this environment. We feel really guilty about the
chaos, confusion and truly awesome programming projects that have resulted
from our silly prank so long ago."

Dennis Ritchie said: "What really tore it (just when AIDA was catching on),
was that Bjarne Stroustrup caught onto our joke. He extended it to further
parody, Smalltalk. Like us, he was caught by surprise when nobody laughed.
So he added multiple inheritance, virtual base classes, and later ...
templates. All to no avail. So we now have compilers that can compile 100,000
lines per second, but need to process header files for 25 minutes before they
get to the meat of "Hello, World".

Major Unix and C vendors and customers, including AT&T, Microsoft,
Hewlett-Packard, GTE, NCR, and DEC have refused to comment on the
announcement. Officials of Borland International, a leading vendor of
object-oriented tools, including Turbo Pascal and Borland C++, stated they
suspected this for a couple of years.

In fact, the notoriously late Quattro Pro for Windows was originally written
in C++. Borland CEO Del Yocam said: "I'm told that, after two and a half
years of programming, and massive programmer burn-out, we recoded the whole
thing in Turbo Pascal in three months. It's fair to say that Turbo Pascal
saved our bacon back then". Another Borland spokesman said that they would
continue to enhance their Pascal products, and halt further efforts to
develop C/C++.

Professor Wirth of the ETH institute and father of the Pascal, Modula 2 and
Oberon structured languages, cryptically said "P.T. Barnum was right." He had
no further comments.


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