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Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Back in Windows 95, there was one bug that was originally filed against the window manager team. Upon closer investigation, the window manager team determined that the bug was really in the video driver and added their analysis to the bug as they reassigned it. I don't know what overcame them, but the analysis was written in iambic pentameter. (It may have been rhymed couplets; my memory is kind of hazy. Gosh, I hope it wasn't haiku.)

At any rate, the device driver team added one comment to the bug immediately upon receiving it: "We ain't much fer book lernin'."

Published Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:00 AM by oldnewthing
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# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:21 AM by Karellen

Sorry, but with that parenthetical statement consisting of 3 phrases, one of which mentions haiku, I can't help but rewrite it so:

Maybe rhymed couplets/Memory hazy like mist/I hope not haiku

:)

# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:27 AM by Evan

I'm not sure if I should be a little proud or ashamed at the following commit log message for a class project I worked on:

"refactoring / cbi_doStuff was long / not as much now"

(I'm definitely not proud of the function name "cbi_doStuff" though.)

# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:28 AM by Keithius

It's stuff like this that keeps me coming back, day after day. ;-)

# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:16 PM by Craig Stuntz

When I cancel spam on the CodeGear/Borland newsgroups I'll occasionally write poetry as the cancellation reason, e.g.:

Cancelling spam on a snowy Monday

Whose groups these are I think I know

Their building's in Scotts Valley though

They will not see me cancel here

The posts of spammers, seeking dough

My XanaNews must think it queer

That Borland cannot engineer

A spam filter which does not take

The efforts of this volunteer

To click these links is a mistake

The products proffered must be fake

And though the prices might seem cheap

Just use your head, for goodness sake

The questions here are dark and deep

But I have ads and spam to sweep

Another pointer on the heap

Another pointer on the heap

# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:37 PM by brian

reading is for stupids

# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:09 PM by David M

As a reader of those newsgroups, Craig, I have to say thanks for your work keeping them clean.  I've never seen any of that poetry though?

That is:

 Reading non-tech posts:

 Net monkeys complain too much

 Thankfully, no ads

First one I've written for a long time, I think, but it seems appropriate for the topic :)

# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:47 PM by Chris @ Martial Development

What have you got against haiku?

# i like ellipses… » The joys in bug tracking

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:52 PM by i like ellipses… » The joys in bug tracking

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# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:59 PM by Starfish

Haiku's overused.

Its prevalence is boring.

What's wrong with sonnets?

# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:12 AM by Karellen

Too many "haiku"

Lack ref'rences to nature

Feel bare like tundra

# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:31 AM by Starfish

My mistake is common

I lament all false haiku

Like a tree I'll 'leaf'

# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:17 PM by 87

Farewell Haiku! thou art obscure for rhyming,

Yet fools around the world have found thee now,

The charter of thy birth is free from timing;

And boys enjoy the slaughter of thy vowels.

For how do I write thee but by thy granting?

And for that fault where is my recompense?

The myst'ry of thy verse is still enchanting,

And so my lust for thee still grows immense.

Thy self thou hid for cent'ries from all seeing,

But many now discovered thy strange form;

So thy great gift, not having escap'd fleeing,

Flies true again, on wing of quill'ed swarm.

Thus have we had thee, as a dream doth flatter,

In poets awed, but in new minds just chatter.

# re: Amusing bug reports: On poetry and prose

Thursday, November 15, 2007 7:17 PM by David Conrad

A programmer hacking .NET

Found bugs that he just couldn't "get"

He started debugging

But ended up chugging

A whole case of beer to forget!

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