🚀 go-pugleaf

The scene: 5pm, Friday night, small payroll bureau
The time:  12 years ago
The action:

The payroll printing program has just been amended and seems
to pass all its tests, so they do the live run.   After finishing
the operator notices that some of the printing is wrong, and takes
the useless output to the chief programmer.

The chief programmer looks at the buggy output, glances at the program, 
finds the faulty code and quickly types a few lines to fix it, compiles
and tells the operator to re-run the job.   The operator comes back ten
minutes later with a new pile of buggy output:  everything is ok, except
no names have printed on the payslips.

The chief programmer grunts, and scans the code again, when the operator
drops the bombshell:  this job is urgently due, and there is no more of
the special stationery left to print on.

No problem at all.  The chief programmer types a few more lines, compiles
again, and tells the operator to run the job again, and feed the
output from the previous job through the printer again...
He had amended the program to remove all the printing except the names.
And between the two incomplete passes through the printer, they
got one good set of payslips.   I think....




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