What is the history here and how on Earth is this considered appropriate for a manual? Even if this is tongue in cheek it's still way too unhinged to be taken as a joke, or a "Mondays right?" type of comical rant.
This is dark, and I'm surprised this person hasn't actually gone off the deep end....
I can't imagine someone writing this as a joke... hope whoever wrote that got the help they needed (it's from 1994, but I'm too afraid to look up who wrote it and what happened).
It's a joke. Olin Shivers is currently a professor in CS at Northeastern University.
Jesus Christ what happened to people I'm tech that posts like this are considered normal?