Humor
How boring would our lives be if we didn't have the resort of
humor. The Allegro community, apart from providing excellent game
programming code, continues to discuss strange subjects, sometimes
bordering the thin line between fiction and reality...
Allegro related humor
Aliens have landed! -
One of the first April fool day jokes. Nobody knew what would
come afterward.
Allegro 4.0 beta -
Just when many had lost their faith and thought Allegro would
stagnate before reaching version 4.0, Shawn came and threw some
light on the subject.
Proposal for Allegro's future -
An imaginative proposal which was met with a sound silence,
possibly meaning that everybody was in agreement. It even spawned a logo...
Allegro 5 released! -
With an excellent timing, Bob managed to announce the fantastic
features of the recent fifth incarnation of Allegro, this time even
with mind accelerated control! Could this be true?
A new compression format -
The previous release of Allegro 5 creates some uncertainty among the
Allegro users who don't know how to handle the new lzip
compression format.
Spectrum Allegro 1.0 -
A discussion about the development of Allegro 5 spawns a new port,
it's time for the Spectrum platform.
The uncertain future of Allegro -
Peter Wang sadly announces that development of Allegro 5 stagnates
favoring a coup d'état by Bob and migration of Allegro
users to SDL.
Programming related humor
Big ball of mud -
A very long text which explains how sometimes software development
resembles the slow growth of... a big ball of mud.
Resign Patterns -
While students in universities are taught design patterns, sooner
or later they will meet the anti-patterns of real life.
The Klingon programmer -
While puny little humans write buggy software, we Klingons laugh
in the face of danger and battle with honor! Don't forget to read
other jokes collected by Susan Stepney.
Programmer jokes -
The title says it all, a bunch of programmer jokes. Some really
worth of reading are the undocumented assembler instructions, the
lesser-known programming languages or the interview with Stroustrup
about the truth of C++. Terrifying.
The evolution of a programmer -
One of the numerous jokes collected by Stein
Langřrgen.
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