Euan The Debugger
Background
As a software engineer, I have frequently been exposed to the
phenomenon of V&V, the process whereby other people code a
piece of allegedly high-integrity software, overrunning their
coding deadline by about 10%, then release it to be tested and
otherwise verified by some poor schumck with a taste for serious
masochism. This is not an occupation that gives you much
confidence in the technological gizmos of the late 20th century.
In fact, it scares the crap out of me.
In an effort to avoid massive lawsuits from people whose code
I may have chanced to glance upon in the past, Euan the debugger
was invented. He's a blend of several of the larger-than-life
personalities I've encountered across the aether of UseNet and
the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, added to one or two Real People
from my experience. No names will be mentioned, but You Know
Who You Are.
If any of the information in here is useful to you, it's
likely that you need to seek professional help. Be warned.
And now, on to Euan...
Euan The Debugger
- Chapter 1
- In which we meet Euan and discover his curse
- Chapter 2
- In which Euan finds that ignorance is very much
bliss as far as others' code is concerned
- Chapter 3
- In which the team starts to realise that there
really are fates worse than death. Several,
in fact.
There will be more from Euan... one of these days...
Disclaimer
None of the events, people, processes, projects, languages or anything else in here is intended to correspond to reality in any form whatsoever, other than holding to the general principle that everyone writes some really, really awful code at one time or another. It's just that for some people, this seems to be a full-time occupation.