Pen and paper is great! Sketch the ideas, develop algorithms, come up with good variable names, all before you hit the keyboard. But then I often have to revise my ideas when the reality of programming kicks in.

Another good thing: print out your code, sit down in a comfy chair (or in bed) and revise it all. Boy that can clean your code up really nicely.

A programmer goes to the shop to buy some milk. His wife calls and says "While you're out, get some eggs." He never returns.

This version makes me laugh harder

DaveRobinsonUK1 wrote:

KrazyKyngeKorny wrote:

I knew a fellow, early twenties, who aspired to be a professional programmer.

He showed me some code for a program he was writing (BASIC).

At one point he had code like

if x < 10 then
if x < 8 then
    (code)
else if x < 5 then
    (code)

Unfortunately, much of this sort of thing goes on in professional programming.

Yeah! tell me about it. I work with artists who think because they have learned how write a small script
they are somehow equivalent to god. Not only do they do things like this, they also NEVER comment their
code. Then to add further complication they needlessly split functions out into separate files. Also they
don't document or provide test data for the program. As a result when you come to make some changes
you have to go through the whole thing line by line. They don't seem to understand the concept of making
it work on paper before going anywhere near a keyboard.

These people are a menace and have no business being in charge of a programming language.

What is this all about?

Hi Agnishom;

That is good. That jar will open now!

Agnishom wrote:

There are only 10 kinds of people: Those who understand binary and those who do not

Did you get that from a t shirt