Pete's Log: obscenity and perversion
Entry #484, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
today i taught cse 232. it was interesting. four juniors showed up and sat in the front row, just because. i got more response than i was expecting which was good... people actually seemed to be paying attention, if nothing else. at one point, when i wanted to demonstrate emacs looking pretty, i pulled open a random piece of code. the first one that came to mind as being big enough to look pretty was execute.c from my shell for os. so i page down to a bit that looks interesting and talk about how pretty the colors are. well, pretty quick i hear people laughing, so i take a closer look at the portion of the code displayed and realize it contains the following comment:
/* fuck fuck fuck i hate the way pipes are handled by the parser */so i hit page down once more and move on... it was silly, but amusing. i propogandized ndlug, i answered questions, and i got to wear one of them debartolo microphone thingies.
while doing some poking around for some things (mainly trying to figure out this forth thing) i discovered the following gcc extension to the c language: Labels as values... it is an obscene perversion. it is wrong and evil. it may prove useful.