Op zondag 27 januari 2002 16:27 schreef dinges het volgende:

zijn er nog meer van die dingen?
Geen probleem

. Een paar voorbeelden:
panic("Foooooooood fight!");
-- In the kernel source aha1542.c, after detecting a bad segment list
Dijkstra probably hates me
(Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c)
+#if defined(__alpha__) && defined(CONFIG_PCI)
+ /*
+ * The meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Plus
+ * this makes the year come out right.
+ */
+ year -= 42;
+#endif
(From the patch for 1.3.2: (kernel/time.c), submitted by Marcus Meissner)
"lp1 on fire"
(One of the more obfuscated kernel messages)
/*
* Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to
* terminate things with extreme prejudice.
*/
die_if_kernel("Oops", regs, error_code);
-- From linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
This is a scsi driver, scares the shit out of me, therefore I tapdanced
and wrote a unix clone around it (C) by linus
-- Somewhere in the kernel tree
/*
* Please skip to the bottom of this file if you ate lunch recently
* -- Alan
*/
-- from Linux kernel pre-2.1.91-1
Overigens zijn er ook een aantal erg goede in de perl-code...een paar voorbeelden:
There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of
something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
-- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
/* And you'll never guess what the dog had */
/* in its mouth... */
-- Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
break; /* don't do magic till later */
-- Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
%
/* dbmrefcnt--; */ /* doesn't work, rats */
-- Larry Wall in hash.c from the perl source code
%
#define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */
-- Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code
%
#define SIGILL 6 /* blech */
-- Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code
if (rsfp = mypopen("/bin/mail root","w")) { /* heh, heh */
-- Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code
En een laatste:
double value; /* or your money back! */
short changed; /* so triple your money back! */
-- Larry Wall in cons.c from the perl source code
Voor meer voorbeelden verwijs ik naar de betreffende sources en de altijd-handige fortune-database

.
Leven is het meervoud van lef | In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.