Computer Programming
In using a commercial software package, I recently got the following error message “Attempting to use transgressed handle. Error 6 repeating error 6”. It kept this up until I turned the machine off. Are they trying to drive me insane, or are they crazy?
———- from Frank Zucker of PhD, Seattle, WA
Both. Anybody who’d purchase software over the counter is asking for trouble. I won’t use anything I haven’t programmed myself, usually in a highly sophisticated language called “Psychospeak 5.2”, which to the unaided eye appears to be an endless string of random numbers. This is because it actually is an endless string of random numbers, punctuated by phone numbers of friends and relatives, just to introduce some order into chaos. It’s a spreadsheet, it’s a word processing program, it’s a fax/modem, depending on my state of mind while operating it. I’d send you a copy, but it’s copy protected, and besides, unless you have 256 megabytes of RAM and one heck of a hard drive, your computer would probably blow up.
Both. Anybody who’d purchase software over the counter is asking for trouble. I won’t use anything I haven’t programmed myself, usually in a highly sophisticated language called “Psychospeak 5.2”, which to the unaided eye appears to be an endless string of random numbers. This is because it actually is an endless string of random numbers, punctuated by phone numbers of friends and relatives, just to introduce some order into chaos. It’s a spreadsheet, it’s a word processing program, it’s a fax/modem, depending on my state of mind while operating it. I’d send you a copy, but it’s copy protected, and besides, unless you have 256 megabytes of RAM and one heck of a hard drive, your computer would probably blow up. 