Random Thoughts

[Fireball]

I need to work all weekend, the bit of work I'm working on is failing inexplicably.  It's supposed to go into production on Wednesday.   I don't mind, it'll keep me away from the whiskey, for awhile.

I've had code (FORTRAN) give me problems like that. I'll never forget writing some polarization sense correction code and having it take me a week to realize that a PDP-12/23 (yes, I'm that old) doesn't accept "tab" like a DEC mainframe does. I ended up going back and using the space bar on many lines of code to replace the "tab" with the requisite number of spaces. 

I got called back later because the guy in charge of that had given me bad instructions about the use of logarithms. He wanted the results expressed in negative logs instead of dB negative. Of course, that's just mathematically stupid, so I coded it properly. When he told the senior scientist what I had done, I got called back to "make it right". I took a brief look at it, and said, "It's already correct, I wrote it against your instructions".    He was not amused.