From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:00:42 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Edouard KLEIN wrote: > Was this kind of humor tolerated in the professional settings where UNIX > first circulated, or was it frowned upon ? As a former developer and manager, I would be really pissed off if my programmers wasted their time on writing useless frippery instead of quality code, and I would certainly have a little chat with them... Or is that just me? And is some M$ malware still masquerading as easter eggs? Simple enough to do: write it, wait for it to spread a bit, announce you've found a new egg (but it may not work for everyone (and will now))... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."