An older gentleman was on the operating table awaiting a complicated surgery on him and he insisted that his son-in-law, a renowned surgeon, perform the operation. As he was about to get the anaesthesia, he spoke to his son-in-law. “Yes, Dad, what is it?” “Don’t be nervous son; do your best and just remember, if something happens to me mother in law will come and live with you.” The surgery was a great success.

Law 1 Every Software Engineer continues his state of chatting or forwarding mails unless he is assigned work by manager. Law 2 The rate of change in the software is directly proportional to the payment received from client and takes place at the quick rate as when deadline force is applied. Law 3 For every Use Case Manifestation there is an equal but opposite Software Implementation. Law 4 Bugs can neither be created nor be removed from software by a developer. It can only be converted from one form to another. The total number of bugs in the software always remains constant!'

केव्हातरी कोल्हापूरच्या कर्तव्यतत्पर केळकर काकांबद्दल काकांच्याच कचेरीतल्या केशवने काकूंसमोर कागाळी केली. काकू कावल्या. काकूंनी कपाटातून कात्री काढून काकांच्या कामाचे कोरे करकरीत कागद कचाकचा कापले. काकांचे कापलेले कागद केशवानेच कचऱ्यात कोंबून काकांच्याच किचनमध्ये ‘कजरारे-कजरारे’ कवितेवर कोळीनृत्य केले. काकूंनी कागद कापल्याचे कळताच काका कळवळले. काकांनीही कमालच केली. काकांनी काकूंचे काळे कुळकुळीत केस कात्रीने कराकरा कापले. काका काय करताहेत काकूंना कळेनाच! काकूंनी कर्कश्श किंचाळून कलकलाट केला. काका काकूंची कसली काळजी करणार! काकांना कामाची काळजी. काकूंच्या कर्णकर्कश्श कोलाहलातही, केशवाने कचऱ्यात कोंबलेले कागदाचे कपटेन कपटे काढून काकांनी कचेरीकडे कूच केले. कचेरीच्या कामासाठी काकांनी कंबर कसली. कागदाच्या कापलेल्या कपट्यांचे काकांनी ‘कोलाज’ करून कामकाज कार्यान्वयित केले. केशवाचे कारनामे कळताच काकांनी काट्यानेच काटा काढला. काकांनी केशवालाच कोलाजचे काम करण्यासाठी कुथवला. कपटी केशवने काकांवरच कामचुकारपणाचा कांगावा करून कामाचा कंटाळा केला. काकांनी कठोरपणे केशवाला कामावरून काढले. कासावीस काकूंनी कालच्या कडू कारल्याची कोशिंबीर कटाप करून काकांसाठी कच्च्या कैरीचे कोय काढून कालवण केले. काकांनीही करुणेने काकूंचे कृत्रिम केस कुरवाळले. केळकरांच्या कोकणस्थ कुटुंबात कर्तव्यापुढे कर्मकांड केव्हाही कनिष्ठच. कर्तव्यदक्ष काकांच्या कार्यकाळात कचेरीने कर्मरूपी किल्ल्याचे कीर्तिशिखर काबीज केले. कामावरून काढलेल्या केशवाने कितीतरी काबाडकष्ट काढल्यावर कोल्हापूरच्या कॉम्रेड कणेकर कॉलेजने केशवाला कबड्डीचा कर्णधार केला. क्रिडापटू केशवाने कबड्डीतच करियर केले. कालच्या कागाळीखोर केशवाला काळानेच केला ‘कबड्डीतल्या किचकट कसरतींचा कर्ता’! कथासार

Disclaimer: All characters in the story are not at all imaginary. Any resemblance to person living or dying of work is purely intentional. One night when the whole world was sleeping, a thief broke into the house of a washer man. The washer man was fast asleep but the donkey and the dog were awake. The dog decided not to bark since the master did not take good care of him and wanted to teach him a lesson. The donkey got worried and said to the dog that if he doesn’t bark, the donkey will have to do something himself. The dog did not change his mind and the donkey started braying loudly. Hearing the donkey bray, the thief ran away, the master woke up and started beating the donkey for braying in the middle of the night for no reason. ...

The Silent Void Thus spake the master programmer: “When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave.” 1.1 Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void. Waiting alone and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion. It is the source of all programs. I do not know its name, so I will call it the Tao of Programming. ...

Problem: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”. f = lambda x: 'FizzBuzz' if not (x%5 or x%3) else 'Fizz' if not x%3 else 'Buzz' if not x%5 else str(x) for x in range(100): print(f(x)) Fizz Buzz problem