More programming humor - may even be funny to others
PostPosted:Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:30 am
A few weeks ago I was testing our bitmap font class for mobile development...there was a bug in my abstract collection class...I wrote down the results in comments at the top of the file because I thought they were pretty amusing.
To test the bitmap font class, I put in a nonsense string, off the top of my head, "fudgebutter". (I suppose I was hungry.) It drew to the screen "fudgebutte". I figured, okay, I'll figure out where it's dropping the last character later, and moved on to test drawing it with spaces in it to test that - it was supposed to tokenize the string, and draw each word on the next line automatically if there wasn't enough room left.
So to test drawing with spaces, I put a space in "fudgebutter" - so, "fudge butter". I got back "buttfudg".
There were a few bugs that joined forces to produce a fairly serious, but funny-ass, error. I should have taken a screenshot; that goes on my personal list of "best bugs ever", right up there with the Spanish "no startup disk inserted - hit any key" message that for some reason the BIOS on my old computer spit out at me one day. Anyone else have any good ones?
To test the bitmap font class, I put in a nonsense string, off the top of my head, "fudgebutter". (I suppose I was hungry.) It drew to the screen "fudgebutte". I figured, okay, I'll figure out where it's dropping the last character later, and moved on to test drawing it with spaces in it to test that - it was supposed to tokenize the string, and draw each word on the next line automatically if there wasn't enough room left.
So to test drawing with spaces, I put a space in "fudgebutter" - so, "fudge butter". I got back "buttfudg".
There were a few bugs that joined forces to produce a fairly serious, but funny-ass, error. I should have taken a screenshot; that goes on my personal list of "best bugs ever", right up there with the Spanish "no startup disk inserted - hit any key" message that for some reason the BIOS on my old computer spit out at me one day. Anyone else have any good ones?