Shadowlessness, and how it feels.
The Slashdotters put together a list of questions for Bjarne Sroustrup to answer a while back. The Q&A is interesting on its own, but this comment by an anonymous coward (as they are called on /.) is the funniest piece of writing I’ve read in a long time!
Read the Q&A and the rest of the comments too, if you have time.
: How about walking on a rope across the Niagara falls? Blindfolded, and in a storm!
: I just want to say thanks, I learned a lot of useful stuffs reading "Fun with C++" posts! Hail to you!!!
: Thanks and welcome. But I'm too old for that shit now!
: Shine on
: About Niagara, take me a cane, i will across 
: As you keep writing awful things like "27 hours of programming", I really miss that "Fun ..."
: hi there! i need youre agreement to publish the garshasp's picture on wikipedia english and persian page on my article about this game in french, can [...]
: I've heard you follow "bad" programmers with a shotgun! LOL!
: Hello, I would like to know if you are still developing the Mage engine and also where can I get the latest updates and news [...]
: با سلام. من بازی شما را دیدم و لذت بردم. وقتی آن را با بازی های مطرح دنیا مقایسه می کنم می بینم که آن ها [...]
: Well, no one is working on Cubewars for now, and the source code was never open, IIRC.
: I had a hiccup on my blog due to a botched auto-update script. Thanks to my friend ard for letting me know.
: Steve Jobs died. Dennis Ritchie died. May the Random Number Gods save Donald Knuth!
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Hilarious!
Also, look at this fake interview of Bjarne Stroustrup :
http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Invention_of_Cplusplus.shtml
Very funny too :-]
one of the things that this world surely missed is his explanation over glasses.
Its a sad thing that he assumed (PROBABLY wrongly) that we all know what a glasses is and he refused to teach us, its REALLY made me sad.
what a miss.