Software Archaeology 434
Plug1 writes "Salon (day pass needed) has an article about preserving software for historical purposes. It discusses source code archiving, and the effect the DMCA is having on attempts to catalog and analyze legacy code. It will be a shame if in the future a wealth of information is locked away because knoweldge of the underlying technology is lost."
Explain the Pyramids? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My first program (Score:4, Funny)
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10
30 END
At which point you have created your first programming boo boo.
Coming Soon... (Score:4, Funny)
MY first program (Score:3, Funny)
20 beep
30 goto 10
Even years ago I was much more 1337 than yu0 !
HA HA! (Score:5, Funny)
YOU VIOLATED THE DMCA AND COPYRIGHT LAWS (Score:0, Funny)
Sincerely,
Salon.com
Re:Central Point Software (Score:5, Funny)
No, it won't (Score:3, Funny)
Consider conferences on Geek Culture someday, where Prof. Bipperton Fusslebeak delivers a sad, acedmic commentary on contemporary culture:
"An Analysis of the Correlation between Increased Use of Open Source Software, and Slashdot Posts Centered Around Deviant Sexual Behaviors in the Post-.Com Era".
I'm doing my part (Score:4, Funny)
I'm doing my part to make sure that the porn images of the Internet don't meet this similar fate. I have recorded my voice describing each of the images in my collection, and encoded it into the open-source OGG format. Much of the recording has consisted of little more than "Mmmmmmmmmmm, yeah baby", but I think that speaks volumes.
Re:Coming Soon... (Score:4, Funny)
"E"diana Jones:: "DONT LOOK AT IT MARION!!"
Old computer Scholar: "It's beautiful
A joke (Score:5, Funny)
The year was 2015. Joe, a programmer, was getting up in years and decided he wanted to have his body frozen after he died. He made the arrangements, and when the time came, he was frozen and placed in a government facility. Time passed, and he was forgotten.
Jump ahead a few centuries... suddenly Joe finds himself conscious again! He is on a lab table surrounded by strange looking people in uniforms. Their leader, speaking through a translator, welcomes Joe back to life.
Joe is amazed! There are so many questions he wants to ask, but first he says, "Why did you bring me back to life?"
The leader answers, "Well, the year is 9999. Y10k is coming up, and your file says you know Cobol."
Aha! (Score:3, Funny)
*snaps whip*
"Fetch me another Mountain Dew, Shorty!"
Re:full article text, no pass required (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, and jaywalking is illegal, too.
Re:Please understand... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Coming Soon... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:here's an easy howto: (Score:3, Funny)
What about CD-R's exposed to mountain dew?
Is this irony? (Score:5, Funny)
So kudos for reposting this valuable information to Slashdot! Without the efforts of others like you, internet surfers in generations to come might never understand the importance of, well, the efforts of others like you.
Re:I'm doing my part (Score:2, Funny)
Ingoramus high-level programmers? (Score:1, Funny)
Electrons. That's what computer programming is all about.
Damn young upstart whippersnappers.
Re:Please understand... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Explain the Pyramids? (Score:3, Funny)