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Read this article for the first time in 1994 and was pleased to see that SGI still had it on their site...

Read it, laugh, think and think again...

http://www.sgi.com/grafica/future/index.html

And this... This is "hard stuff"... MAN!!! This is sooo cool...

http://www.sgi.com/grafica/future/futnotes.html

One short example from the page (TM Silicon Graphics),

Futurist Programming Exercises

• * Remove all system files that haven't been accessed in the last 6 months. Ours works fine!
  * Write a program that dynamically generates code.
  * Try indenting from right to left.
  * What is the shortest program that will accomplish your task?
  • o lowest number of characters in source.
    o smallest executable.
    o executes least number of instructions.
  * Write a program using assembly language. Compare this to a C++ implementation

It will change your life forever... Hehe...

Did the person who wrote that stuff really mean it?
Or is it just written for a good laugh?

This ones pretty good (concidering todays modern languages)

Object-Oriented = slow and bloated and late and buggy.

GeoTrail wrote:
Did the person who wrote that stuff really mean it?

For a good laugh I think, but also a bit serious... Sometimes it makes me stop and think, though...

The part "How would you wash a window?" is so true - and I'll try to think of it when I manage a software developer project at work...