Application Trololo: "Do you want to GPF?"
This is really just one to satisfy my curiosity. I'm looking at software written in the Year Dot using a product called Clarion.
As software is wont to do, it has the occasional bugs. One in particular tickles my funny bone every time it happens. It states something or other has gone wrong and then it asks the immortal question:
"Do you want to GPF?"
I find this hilarious. It's not like it's all hunky dory if I decide to pick "No" as an answer. The application, may it rest in peace, crashes and burns either way.
But still, I can't help but wonder. At some stage somebody, somewhere, must have thought that giving the user the option to GPF or not was a good idea. And I am curious as to what rationale may be behind this. Under what circumstance could giving the choice to GPF or not EVER be one that could be worth making? Enquiring minds need to know.
Extra points for answers in rhyme.
As software is wont to do, it has the occasional bugs. One in particular tickles my funny bone every time it happens. It states something or other has gone wrong and then it asks the immortal question:
"Do you want to GPF?"
I find this hilarious. It's not like it's all hunky dory if I decide to pick "No" as an answer. The application, may it rest in peace, crashes and burns either way.
But still, I can't help but wonder. At some stage somebody, somewhere, must have thought that giving the user the option to GPF or not was a good idea. And I am curious as to what rationale may be behind this. Under what circumstance could giving the choice to GPF or not EVER be one that could be worth making? Enquiring minds need to know.
Extra points for answers in rhyme.
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Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by clicking "Yes" end them. To GPF, to crash, no more!
ASKER
And by GPF to say we end the Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks that Clarion is heir to? 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To GPF to sleep, to sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub, for in that sleep of GPF, what dreams may come, when we have shuffled out of memory, may give us pause ....
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But as a developer it brings a smile to my face every time it pops up. "Ohhhhhhh", I say, while stroking my beard pensively. "To GPF or NOT to GPF, that is the question. Whatever shall I do?"
[grin]