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Anger as a Software Design Philosophy

Posted by michael on from the soundproof-cubicle dept.

Chilliwilli writes "Spending more time cursing your code than writing it? Well now there's an answer. feckfeck (a language in the vein of Whitespace and Brainf*ck) will help you get back that precious time by converting your foul words into code. You've heard the hype surrounding VLIWs, well here are FLIWs (4 letter instruction words). The great thing is the more angry you get the more code you'll write. For those programmers on performance related pay this is great news."

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  1. Not a new concept... by TWX_the_Linux_Zealot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wasn't this pioneered years ago when the UNIX file system checking command was created?

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    IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
    And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
  2. I can do that with plain sh... by Juiblex · · Score: 5, Funny

    unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck;

    more;yes;fsck;fsck;fsck;umount;sleep

    gawk; talk; date; wine; grep; touch; unzip; touch; gasp; finger...

    1. Re:I can do that with plain sh... by CoolVibe · · Score: 5, Funny
      You might wanna change the semicolons to double ampersands. If somehow some process returns something other than 0, you won't risk sexual harrassment. With double ampersands, you break off before you get slapped with a restraining order.

      Just so you know :)

    2. Re:I can do that with plain sh... by iabervon · · Score: 5, Funny

      It doesn't matter how many times you fsck, if you mount first, you won't get a clean system. It would be much safer to modprobe or hotplug instead...

      Oh, right, and don't forget to "wait" to make sure all of the children have exited first, or you won't be able to umount, which can be very embarrassing.

  3. So.... by slashmonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the censored version of this the same as whitespace?

  4. What the heck? by smasch · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's missing s**t?! Isn't that one on the short list of four letter expletives? I mean, they've got "boob", "shag", and "tits"; how could they forget "shit"?

    1. Re:What the heck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, I think the designer is saving that for their version with debugging support. Want to abort and generate a core dump?

      SHIT!!!!!

  5. Damn! by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I know why software availability is so poor on Mac or Linux, compared to Wintel. Wintel users curse their machines and their software waaaaaaay more often than those Linux or Mac weirdos.

  6. Re:A bit limited surely... by goodchef · · Score: 5, Funny
    it would be nice to have a 64-bit web server whose source code was itself pornographic. I'm releasing the concept under a license which says that all resulting code must be GPLed.

    A better idea would be to release it under a licence which says that all resulting code must be GPLed AND pornographic. This would result not only in more free-as-in-Stallman code, but also more porn! And porn that you have a legitimate reason for looking at at work!

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    "Inflammable means flammable? What a strange country!" -Dr. Nick, The Simpsons

  7. Oh, that one's far easier by ethnocidal · · Score: 5, Funny

    strip unzip fcsk sleep

    1. Re:Oh, that one's far easier by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or, for the married programmer:

      sleep

  8. Re:Strange philosophy by soccerisgod · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know about you, but when I write code I mostly curse missing/obsolete/faulty documentation and other people's bad code...

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    If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?