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» Computer Programming Humor

Jokes, oneliners, and prank definitions.

http://www.heuse.com/cphumor.htm

» Computer Stupidities

Collection of stupid chunks of C source code and reports of encounters with less-than-bright apprentice programmers.

http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_programming.shtml

» Epigrams in Programming

List of 120 programming-related aphorisms.

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

» Fifty Ways to Hose Your Code

A song kind of by Paul Simon.

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~norm/hose_code.html

» Hacker's Wisdom

Collection of programming humor and computer folklore classics.

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/

» Holger's Humor Page

Why is C++ programming like teenage sex? What's the difference between a software developer and a drug dealer? When will operator overloading be added to Java? This page has the answers.

http://www.klawitter.de/enhumor.html

» How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot

Showcases how to shoot yourself in the foot using several programming languages.

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/joke/foot.htm

» Jargon File

Programmer slang dictionary, containing more than 2000 not-quite-serious definitions and a number of programmer folklore anecdotes. Hosted by Eric S. Raymond.

http://catb.org/jargon/

» Laugh Along with GNU

Designed to provide some laughs to the working hackerslarge collection of GNU/programming humor.

http://www.gnu.org/fun/humor.html

» Programming Languages are Like Women

Mildly sexist metaphorical languages lineup.

http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/rainbow/prog.lang.html

» Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

Classic Datamation article by Ed Post.

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

» Reflections on Trusting Trust

An ACM classic: UNIX coinventor Ken Thompson reports on how he hacked his own C compiler.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358210

» Softpanorama Humor Archive

Open-source related humor, dissing (among others) Linus Torvalds, RMS, ESR, vi, and Perl.

http://www.softpanorama.org/Bulletin/Humor/index.shtml

» Softwarequotes.com

Quotations from various programmers about programming. Includes a quotes search, newsletter, and index of quotes by person quoted.

http://www.softwarequotes.com/

» The Algorithm of an Average Taxpayer's Life

A structured biography in 483 pseudo-coded subroutines, as logical outcome of random events and processes during lifetime.

http://www.alphaandomega.nl/

» The Commentator

A program for generating comments automatically, customizable by FUD factor, profanity, self-importance, verbosity, humor level, and bitterness.

http://www.cenqua.com/commentator/

» The Daily WTF

Offers daily posts of user-submitted examples of bad code and software design.

http://thedailywtf.com/

» The Evolution of a Programmer

Programming style and how it evolves as programmers mature from junior high students to senior managers.

http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer.html

» The Retrocomputing Museum

Eric S. Raymond's list of outdated, obscure, or deliberately unusable programming languages, compilers, and interpreters.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/retro/

» The Tao Of Programming

Koan-style advice to apprentice programmers.

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html