{"id":5,"date":"2005-06-01T11:05:34","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T10:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=5"},"modified":"2005-06-01T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T10:08:02","slug":"klingon-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Klingon Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top 12 Things A Klingon Programmer Would Say<\/p>\n<p>12. Specifications are for the weak and timid!<\/p>\n<p>11. This machine is a piece of GAGH! I need dual processors if I am to do battle with this code!<\/p>\n<p>10. You cannot really appreciate Dilbert unless you&#8217;ve read it in the original Klingon.<\/p>\n<p>9. Indentation?! &#8212; I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!<\/p>\n<p>8. What is this talk of &#8216;release&#8217;? Klingons do not make software &#8216;releases&#8217;. Our software &#8216;escapes&#8217; leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>7. Klingon function calls do not have &#8216;parameters&#8217; &#8212; they have &#8216;arguments&#8217; &#8212; and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.<\/p>\n<p>6. Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.<\/p>\n<p>5. I have challenged the entire quality assurance team to a Bat-Leth contest. They will not concern us again.<\/p>\n<p>4. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code!<\/p>\n<p>3. By filing this SCR you have challenged the honor of my family. Prepare to die!<\/p>\n<p>2. You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!<\/p>\n<p>1. Our users will know fear and cower before our software. Ship it! Ship it, and let them flee like the dogs they are!<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as how old school programmers think like klingon programmers, I believe that it can be reasonably assumed that all old programmers are klingon.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 12 Things A Klingon Programmer Would Say 12. Specifications are for the weak and timid! 11. This machine is a piece of GAGH! I need dual processors if I am to do battle with this code! 10. You cannot<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=5\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Klingon Programming<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}