Programming Question of the Week?

[Lost User]

Now you have done it. I will need something like this[^] to play in an endless loop while I'm writing code. :-)

The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

[Daniel Pfeffer]

And who made the maker of the makefile? And who made the maker of the maker of the makefile? ... :)

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

[OriginalGriff]

It's makers all the way down!

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

[szukuro]

[insert anecdote about the first C++ compiler being written in C++]

[Rage]

Actually a genuine question, since the first big milestone of a compiler is when you can compile it in the language you have programmed it for. :^)

Do not escape reality : improve reality !

[Lost User]

I once wrote a make script to generate Makefiles; so who's the Maker?. ;P

[Herman T Instance]

It is recursive!

In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.

[Herman T Instance]

King Richard!

In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.

[Deepak Vasudevan]

"An unhandled exception of type 'System.StackOverflowException' occurred in mscorlib.dll"

[PIEBALDconsult]

MAK files are too rigid; generating them at build-time saves a lot of tedious maintenance work. At the place I worked in the 90s they used "KAM" files to make "MAK" files.