Author Topic: Software and IT guys beware... (Read 315 times)

Mini D · « **on:** August 07, 2003, 02:48:18 PM »

Curval · « **Reply #1 on:** August 07, 2003, 02:51:15 PM »

So I guess if you had unlimited numbers of monkeys sitting in a room banging out code, odds are they would code Aces High 2 eventually?

Mini D · « **Reply #2 on:** August 07, 2003, 02:53:22 PM »

That's what the link says.

MiniD

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 07, 2003, 03:01:15 PM »

"Visual Basic 6.0™ was the preferred IDE for the majority of experiment primate subjects."

If VB is the future of computing we are all screwed.

gofaster · « **Reply #4 on:** August 07, 2003, 03:06:09 PM »

I believe a British lab tested a similar theory with chimpanzees and Shakespeare - that a room ful of primates would eventually compile the complete literary works of William Shakespeare. The put a laptop into a room of chimpanzees. What they ended up with was a page of "S"s and something like this:

SSSSSSSSSsssssssssssssWWWWWWW WhaTTTTT LLLLLLliGGGGGht TTTTTTTHhrOUgh YYYYYoNNNDdderR WwwwwiNDoW BRRREAAAAAaKKKKKSSssssssss

BBBBBbbrIIIIIInnnnnGGGGG THHHHHHe SSSSSSSssssssshheRRRRRmaNNNN CAAaLLLLLLiOOOOOOpEeeee TTtttttoACCCCCCeS HiGGGGGGGghhhh

I liked this quote from your story:

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Great apes (hominids) do not have tails, while monkeys do. Research indicates that great apes are very productive in the areas of software maintenance and report writing, while most monkeys will struggle. Monkeys however are great at software testing. So the rule of thumb is, if you don’t have a tail, you can probably program.