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Resources in This Category

• Computer Programming Humor

  http://www.heuse.com/cphumor.htm
  Jokes, oneliners, and prank definitions.

• Computer Stupidities

  http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_programming.shtml
  Collection of stupid chunks of C source code and reports of encounters with less-than-bright apprentice programmers.

• Epigrams in Programming

  http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
  List of 120 programming-related aphorisms.

• Fifty Ways to Hose Your Code

  http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~norm/hose_code.html
  A song kind of by Paul Simon.

• Hacker's Wisdom

  http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/
  Collection of programming humor and computer folklore classics.

• Holger's Humor Page

  http://www.klawitter.de/enhumor.html
  Why is C++ programming like teenage sex? What's the difference between a software developer and a drug dealer? When will operator overloading be added to Java? This page has the answers.

• How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot

  http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/joke/foot.htm
  Showcases how to shoot yourself in the foot using several programming languages.

• Jargon File

  http://catb.org/jargon/
  Programmer slang dictionary, containing more than 2000 not-quite-serious definitions and a number of programmer folklore anecdotes. Hosted by Eric S. Raymond.

• Laugh Along with GNU

  http://www.gnu.org/fun/humor.html
  Designed to provide some laughs to the working hackers - large collection of GNU/programming humor.

• Programming Languages are Like Women

  http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/rainbow/prog.lang.html
  Mildly sexist metaphorical languages lineup.

• Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

  http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
  Classic Datamation article by Ed Post.

• Reflections on Trusting Trust

  http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358210
  An ACM classic: UNIX coinventor Ken Thompson reports on how he hacked his own C compiler.

• Softpanorama Humor Archive

  http://www.softpanorama.org/Bulletin/Humor/index.shtml
  Open-source related humor, dissing (among others) Linus Torvalds, RMS, ESR, vi, and Perl.

• Softwarequotes.com

  http://www.softwarequotes.com/
  Quotations from various programmers about programming. Includes a quotes search, newsletter, and index of quotes by person quoted.

• The Daily WTF

  http://thedailywtf.com/
  Offers daily posts of user-submitted examples of bad code and software design.

• The Evolution of a Programmer

  http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer.html
  Programming style and how it evolves as programmers mature from junior high students to senior managers.

• The Retrocomputing Museum

  http://www.catb.org/~esr/retro/
  Eric S. Raymond's list of outdated, obscure, or deliberately unusable programming languages, compilers, and interpreters.

 

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