Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / "Pseudocode can be used to some extent \ | to aid the maintenance process. | | However, pseudocode that is highly | | detailed - approaching the level of | | detail of the code itself - is not of | | much use as maintenance documentation. | | Such detailed documentation has to be | | maintained almost as much as the code, | | thus doubling the maintenance burden. | | Furthermore, since such voluminous | | pseudocode is too distracting to be | | kept in the listing itself, it must be | | kept in a separate folder. The result: | | Since pseudocode - unlike real code - | | doesn't have to be maintained, no one | | will maintain it. It will soon become | | out of date and everyone will ignore | | it. (Once, I did an informal survey of | | 42 shops that used pseudocode. Of those | | 42, 0 [zero!], found that it had any | | value as maintenance documentation." | | | | --Meilir Page-Jones, "The Practical | | Guide to Structured | | | \ Design", Yourdon Press (c) 1988 / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;