The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1 (published 1976)
Genesis Release 2.5 (humor. Reprinted from Datamation, November 1973)
Genisis
Release 2.5
By Michael L. Coleman with illustrations by Stew Burgess
IN THE BEGINNING the Project Manager created the Programming Staff. The
Programming Staff was without form and structure. And the Project Manager said,
'Let there be Organization;" and there was Organization. And the Project Manager
saw that Organization was good; and the Project Manager separated the workers
from the supervisors, and he called the
supervisors-"Management," and he called the workers-"Exempt."
And the Project Man Organization, and let it separate the workers, one from
another." And the Project Manager created the mission and he called it-"The
System." And the Project Manager separated those who were to benefit from The
System from those who were to build it. And he called the former-"Users," and he
called the latter-"Programmers."
And the Project Manager said, "Let all the Programmers in the Organization be
gathered together into one place, and let a Chief Programmer be brought up to
lead them." And it was so. And the Project Manager saw that
he was competent.
And the Project Manager said unto the Chief Programmer, "Create for mea
schedule, so that I may look upon the
schedule and know the Due Date." And the Chief Programmer went among his staff
and consulted with them. And the staff was divided into two parts, one part was
called-"Ana
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Reprinted with permission from Datamation, November 1973. Copyright 1973
Technical Publishing Co., Greenwich, CT 06830.
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