A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz”

Re:A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz” by dugmartin on Friday November 30, 2012 @01:21PM (#4854566)

    Me: Really? Is that really a business requirement? Any other requirements you need done?

I landed a graduate assistantship in 1992 as "the computer guy's assistant" at my school's physical plant. My first assignment was to generate a fixed format file with one phone number per line. The file was to range from 1-900-0000 to 1-900-999-9999 and was needed by the campus telephone system to block all premium rate calls. They asked me to do it because they got back a 30 day completion estimate from the central IT department after filling out an internal RFP form.

I'm sure somewhere, someone has been paid to write a program that prints 1 to 100.

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Re:A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz” by SatvikBeri on Friday November 30, 2012 @01:51PM (#4854757)

I know people who spent at least 40 hours/month just updating dates in monthly/weekly excel reports.

Edit: and had 6 figure salaries.

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Re:A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz” by windsurfer on Friday November 30, 2012 @03:17PM (#4855223)

This should be the definition of a modern society.

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Re:A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz” by gtd on Friday November 30, 2012 @07:39PM (#4856287)

Yes, but if you fuck it up heads are gonna roll.

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Re:A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz” by protomyth on Friday November 30, 2012 @08:22PM (#4856438)

I ended up doing the equivalent so many times I wrote a sequence command that had masks and could increment (count) through arbitrary series of characters (AVF => A, V, F, AA, AV, etc). Good for dataset fills.

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