What Makes a Bunch of Software Developers Laugh?

So today in the course of my work I discovered that an external company that provides one of our systems has a very sophisticated technical mechanism for loading data into an Oracle database. They copy and paste the data into an Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has a VB Script macro that connects to Oracle and loads the data at the click of a button. Which would be clever if it was something you were doing at home for personal use. But for a business of their size, it's really a big pile of shit held together with string and sticky tape.

Anyway, we were looking at this code and laughing. The author of the script had abbreviated "count" as "cnt". We find this funny because we are immature. Then one of my colleagues quipped that "loop until cnt = 0" is a perfect analogy for life.

I'm still chuckling to myself now.

Perhaps you had to be there.

tags: small amusements  work