Posted on 19-03-2008

RIP Arthur C. Clarke

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It’s been a bad month; first Gary Gygax, and now Arthur C. Clarke.

Eerily, I found these comments, while going through some source code, here at work, yesterday:

  1.     StoreParameterChanges();
  2.  
  3. // Scheduler was written by Ramans. Everything must be done three times...
  4. if ( (m_lLastParamIndex != CB_ERR) && (m_lLastParamIndex != iSel) )
  5. {
  1.     StoreParameterChanges();
  2.  
  3. // Scheduler was written by Ramans. Everything must be done three times...
  4. if ( (m_lLastParamIndex != CB_ERR) && (m_lLastParamIndex != iSel) )
  5. {
  1.     StoreParameterChanges();
  2.  
  3. // Scheduler was written by Ramans. Everything must be done three times...
  4. if ( (m_lLastParamIndex != CB_ERR) && (m_lLastParamIndex != iSel) )
  5. {

Which, as well as being a strange foreshadowing, just goes to show how great a cultural impact he had1.

  1. OK - so a programmer quoting sci-fi isn’t that spectacularly unlikely, but you get the point. [↩]
RIP Arthur C. Clarke by I Wish I Knew, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.

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