Revenge of the Fubic Inches

Fubic inches were about to have their revenge on us. It was Thursday 9:00 I had just walked into the computer lab.

“Ed can you come hear and help me for a second.”

I looked away and shrugged, mostly because I did not know the person who called my name. They assured me it was a small problem so I walked over, and what was I confronted with?

The FUBIC inches program.

This one did not have incorrect spelling, but it did not want to print at all. Now you know how I am with that trivial programming stuff, I really have forgotten how scanf works and I do not plan on figuring it out. Hell now I am cin.

I looked over this program top to bottom, I checked it against other programs and against worksheets. We must have ran that program 40 times making trivial changes that did not make a bit of difference. There was no printer output.

SO we finally gave up on it. The programming champion was conquered by a Fubic Inches program.

So about 10 minutes later one of the lab guys comes over and says, “Who is printing out all these copies”

Yes it seemed that the guy who was checking the printer was looking at printer 7 while the Fubic inches were pouring out number 8.

So its another day another classic APO-Net programming story.