Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site deepthot.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!psddevl!deepthot!zaphod From: zaphod@deepthot.UUCP (Lance Bailey) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Request for computer science bloope Message-ID: <628@deepthot.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 12:11:55 EDT Article-I.D.: deepthot.628 Posted: Tue Aug 13 12:11:55 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 04:36:36 EDT References: <53100120@trsvax> Organization: UWO CS, London Canada Lines: 25 the one i've alway's liked the most is as follows: the problem was simple process control, truck pulls up to a filling station, gravel comes down the chute until weight 'x' is reached whereupon the gravel flow stops and the truck leaves. well, the program was coded and (i suppose ) tested with stubs for the real-live chute, but when the first live run went through, the truck was BURIED in the gravel. seems that he had programmed the chute gate to close when "weight = x" instead of "weight >= x" !! -- 4 222 4 4 2 2 4 4 2 would you say that this is a result of 44444 22 the "do-it if it feels good" generation? 4 2 -- i've got five bucks riding on it 4 2 4 22222 decvax!{utzoo|watmath}!deepthot!zaphod (Lance Bailey @ UWO Comp Sci, London, Canada)