22 Nov
2017
22 Nov
'17
2:48 p.m.
Edouard KLEIN <edouardklein(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Do you have any UNIX easter-egg stories ? Putting some
in, or discovering
one...
I suspect that Easter Eggs are more common in Open Source / Free Software,
where people feel free to "play" on stuff they do for fun / as volunteers.
Try:
gawk --nostalgia
sometime. :-) For a long time setting WHINY_USER in the environment
caused gawk to loop over arrays in sorted index order. That's long gone,
now that it can be done under program control.
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:00:42 +1100 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme)
I think that this is totally appropriate for code being developed
for a paid product.
Arnold
first circulated, or was it frowned upon ?
As a former developer and manager, I would be really pissed off if my
programmers wasted their time on writing useless frippery instead of
quality code, and I would certainly have a little chat with them...