I've been reading some software development articles, and there was a link to a strange page about the so called real world, with programmers debating about what that means. Sort of cracked me up, in a sad kind of way, and I thought I'd share it with my WT friends.
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Look out your window; the one embedded in your wall, not your computer screen. It's somehow related to the BigRoom.
It's a mythic land where nobody gets too upset if a semi-colon or a parenthesis is missing. Where you want to go when you feel like GettingOut.
Also, a rather concrete land where theory crashes hard into realities, like the limits of today's computer hard- and software. Can refer to leaving the hallowed halls of academia, lured by the call of pre-IPO options.
I always thought that RealWorld referred to an MTV show (MusicTelevision?) about people who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, but are being followed by cameras anyway.
Hmmm... You're over my head here. What platform has "walls" with "embedded windows"? The architecture we use implements Walls, CubeWalls?, Doors, and Three Quarter Partitions. -- EricHerman
I always thought "The RealWorld" meant non-Smalltalk projects with incomplete UnitTests coverage... -- PhlIp
nah, the RealWorld is any place where everyone writes in VisualBasic because it's obviously the fastest, stablest and easiest way to get software to market.
The RealWorld is also where 75%+ of all software projects fail.
The RealWorld is where money comes from. Or where it goes!
The RealWorld is everything there is outside TheMatrix.
"I just found out there is no thing as the RealWorld" - John Mayer (Pop Singer) Me too! I don't know why nobody told me earlier. I create my own PhenomenologicalReality and so does everybody else.
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The first one is the most practically true, I think, and the last is the most factually true. |
