Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ctvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ctvax!rob From: rob@ctvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: A TRUE STORY - (nf) Message-ID: <36700009@ctvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 13:37:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ctvax.36700009 Posted: Sat Aug 4 13:37:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 06:59:34 EDT References: <454@bunker.UUCP> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:bunker:-45400:ctvax:36700009:000:649 Nf-From: ctvax!rob Aug 4 12:37:00 1984 #R:bunker:-45400:ctvax:36700009:000:649 ctvax!rob Aug 4 12:37:00 1984 Long, long ago, I wrote some assembly language programs for a data entry system. At one point in the code there was one of those conditions where "the system could never get". You know, one of thos combinations of conditions where things are so hopelessly messed up there is nothing to be done. The system was being thrown together on such a tight schedule that we didn't even have a fatal error routine. So at this infamous location I wrote: HLT ;WAITING FOR A GOOD IDEA One of the guys installing the software called me one day and said, "Rob, it's time for a good idea!" (We added a fatal error routine.) ...convex!ctvax!rob