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Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Huddersfield W Yorks UK Posts: 1,081

Program naming conventions The other day I went to a new customer that wanted some small upgrades to a lot of machines.

They used to have an electrician that programmed their machines but he left.

However, they still had his company laptop with all the programs on and software. (they also wanted a reduction in the hourly rate because of this - but that didn't happen)



A lot of the machines were almost identical and were all refered to as 'hand assemblers' No numbers or brand just hand assemblers. The programs all varied slightly, timings and different sized product etc so I was not liking the thought that I would have to compare every program on the laptop until I hit the right one.



But when I went to 'open project' I had to laugh. There were hundreds of programs called 'hand assembler' but they all had a name after this. Not the name of the operative but a monicker for the operative.

ie 'hand assembler Elvis Version 4' I looked around and sure enough an operative looked like Elvis. I tested this program on the machine and it was a match.

The next was tele-tubbie and I found that one too.

Yul Brinner was too easy

Tuna pizza face, I had to ask someone discretely (I'm not making these up honest) The poor man had obviously had very bad acne in his youth and his skin was a mess.

Liberace had me in tucks, he was a dead ringer

so was Eddie Murphy.

I thought it must be Charles Bronsons day off until I was told it meant the notorious English criminal, not the film star.



But the funniest program I found was entitled 'Flip over machine that Bob f.u**cked up but I mended.