Klingon Programmers

In many places on the web, you will find this list of top 10 things likely to be overheard if you had a Klingon on your software development team:
  1. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code!
  2. By filing this bug report you have challenged the honor of my family. Prepare to die!
  3. You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!
  4. Our competitors are without honor!
  5. Specifications are for the weak and timid!
  6. This machine is a piece of GAGH! I need dual Pentium processors if I am to do battle with this code!
  7. This code is a piece of crap! You have no honor!
  8. Perhaps it IS a good day to die! I say we ship it!
  9. Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
  10. My program has just dumped Stova Core!
  11. Behold, the keyboard of Kalis! The greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!
(I do not know who originally wrote it)
But I disagree. Klingons prefer hand-to-hand combat to Phasers. You just know that they'd want to use a Z80 for real-time image processing.

So here are N more things likely to be overheard if you had a Klingon on your software development team ( by Steve Baker:

  1. "I have challenged the entire ISO-9000 review team to a round of Bat-Leth practice on the holodeck. They will not concern us again."
  2. "C++? That is for children. A Klingon Warrior uses only machine code, keyed in on the front panel switches in raw binary."
  3. "Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Bugs are good for building character in the user."
  4. "Defensive programming? Never! Klingon programs are always on the offense. Yes, Offensive programming is what we do best."
  5. "Klingon programs don't do accountancy. For that, you need a Farengi programmer."
  6. "Klingon multitasking systems do not support "time-sharing". When a Klingon program wants to run, it challenges the scheduler in hand-to-hand combat and owns the machine."
  7. "Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments' - and they ALWAYS WIN THEM."
  8. "You humans call this thing a 'cursor' and you move it with 'mouse'! Bah! A Klingon would not use such a device. We have a Karaghht-Gnot - which is best translated as "An Aiming Daggar of 16x16 pixels" and we move it using a Gshnarrrf which is a creature from the Klingon homeworld which posesses just one, (disproportionately large) testicle...which it rubs along the ground.....uh do we really need to talk about this?"
  9. "I am without honor...my children are without honor... My father coded at the Battle of Kittimer...and...and...he...
    HE ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE MICROMANAGED." <shudder>
  10. "Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes'. Typically leaving a trail of wounded programmers in it's wake."
  11. "Microsoft is actually a secret Farengi-Klingon alliance designed to cripple the Federation. The Farengi are doing the marketing and the Klingons are writing the code."
  12. "Klingons do not believe in indentation - except perhaps in the skulls of their program managers."
  13. "You can't truly appreciate Dilbert unless you read it in the original Klingon."