Easter Eggs

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:17:40AM +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
> Am I the only person that finds the whole concept of Easter eggs a slap
> in the face from the developers.

   You are not, but most peeple (including me) find them funny.

   "I think it's extraordinary important that we in computer science keep
fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of
course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a
while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if
we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of
these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for
stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the
house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're
Bible salesman. The word has too many of those already. What you know about
computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful
computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is
intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were
first led up to it, that you can make it more."

     Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990)

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.