Arjen Markus This page is intended to collect a few of the wise cracks, jokes and general evidence of wisdom among the regular and not-so-regular visitors of the Tcl Chatroom.
AM For starters, here are a few observations I came up with in July 2002 during a rather stressful day:
Postulates on software engineering:
Postulate 1:
Old programming languages do not die. Motivation: the announcement of COBOL for Linux and .net (july 2002)
Postulate 2:
If you solve a bug and you do not understand why the solution solves it, then it will reincarnate.
Corrolary 2.1 (Miguel Sofer)
The reincarnated bug will bite even harder.
Postulate 3:
There exists a Heisenberg-type uncertainty relation between software quality and the marketing volume
AM (10 september 2008) While this has little to do with Tcl - so far at least - the Tcl chatroom citizens gathered around this site today - http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com . Luckily the information comes with a warranty (check the page's source code).
AM (14 june 2012) Let us not lose this one, brought to the chatroom by jima: Tcl in the Middle Ages
Kaitzschu (17 May 2013) Unfortunately, page was deleted . But there is a backup