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:
246 247 248 249 250 | StoreParameterChanges(); // Scheduler was written by Ramans. Everything must be done three times... if ( (m_lLastParamIndex != CB_ERR) && (m_lLastParamIndex != iSel) ) { |
543 544 545 546 547 | StoreParameterChanges(); // Scheduler was written by Ramans. Everything must be done three times... if ( (m_lLastParamIndex != CB_ERR) && (m_lLastParamIndex != iSel) ) { |
965 966 967 968 969 | StoreParameterChanges(); // Scheduler was written by Ramans. Everything must be done three times... if ( (m_lLastParamIndex != CB_ERR) && (m_lLastParamIndex != iSel) ) { |
Which, as well as being a strange foreshadowing, just goes to show how great a cultural impact he had1.
- OK – so a programmer quoting sci-fi isn’t that spectacularly unlikely, but you get the point. [↩]