antibogon: The Word

By: Gary W. Longsine
February 1, 1999 - 21:21 CDT

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Fragments of a silicon disk from hundreds of years in the future have recently come into the posession of scholars. After months of intensive and secret research, Stepwise is now prepared to release tentative translations of some fragments of these texts...

The Book of Genesis...

1:1 In the beginning God created the Objective C and the Cube.

The Book of Exodus...

1:14 And modality and unprotected memory and C++ made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in Carbon and in Blue Box, and in all manner of dynamic object avoidance: all their procedural and static object coding, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.

The Book of Rhapsody...

1:1 And the people cried out for an OS which did not crash, and where the interface for users was not modal, and was consistent, and where the interface for programmers was not an impediment, and which did not suck.

Gary Longsine is CEO of illumineX, inc., a consulting firm specializing in Java & WebObjects development, and an irregular columnist for Stepwise. All of his opinions, substantiated and otherwise, are his own, and coincide with the opinions of others merely by coincidence.
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