Re: More Acrobat Fun

[greg.hamill@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Quite a few years ago, I worked with a FORTRAN IV (that dates me!) program
of about 80K lines. Whenever the program hit an error like divide by zero
or something, a random number generator pulled up one of about 30 poems,
ranging from eecummings to one or two racy limericks. Instead of getting
the traditional equivalent of "Blue Screen of Death," you got "error at
line 432 in function calangle... There once was a man from..."

The programmer had placed 3-4K lines of poetry into the program. I
personally think it was a back to reality check for him after writing the
other 75K lines.

Greg

Sean Brierly sent...

I understand code bloat. I understand that added code might add a risk of a
bug. But--and maybe this is a problem I have because I've been a computer
geek since the 80s and an Internet geek since the early 90s--Easter Eggs
are cool and I would hope that Adobe quietly permits a few to sneak past
the guards at the gate; and, I am encouraged to infer that this is the
case, from what Lee wrote.

FWIW, I think FM could use a new Easter Egg. Clearly, given how the
application works and the system requirements, it is not bloated to the 
extent of many newer programs, and as long as it continues to be admirably 
lean, why not toss in something creative.

Cheers,

Sean

--- Lee Richardson <lhr@adobe.com> wrote:
> Actually, as part of a development process update,
> we're adding checklist items for legal review of all
> easter eggs with copyright clearance of any images
> used, which I guess makes them 'authorized.' Suspect
> project code names also get legal review and
> trademark searches.
>
> As far as I know, there haven't been any new easter
> eggs in FrameMaker for the last couple releases.


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