HONEST SERVANT
Once upon a time, there was a master who had a honest
servant working for him. One fine day, the master had to send some important
business letters to his clients and he was out of stamps. He called the servant gave money and asked
him to buy stamps from the nearest Post Office.
The servant took the money and immediately left for Post Office.
The master was expecting the servant to return back anytime
soon. Seconds turned to minutes and
minutes turned to couple of hours but the servant did not return back from Post
Office. Master lost the patience and
rushed to the Post Office to see what happened.
As he reached the Post Office, he saw the servant standing
outside the Post Office. Seeing him
master got angry, went near him and asked,
“Did you buy the stamps?”
Servant replied back politely, “Yes, I did”.
Master asked further to find out whether something happened
to the stamps, “Can you show the stamps?”
Servant showed immediately the stamps.
Master asked, “Then why you didn’t return back home? What
are you waiting for?”
Servant responded in his humble way “You didn’t instruct me
to return back to home!! The instruction
was only to buy the stamps.”
From this story, the honest servant is nothing but the
Computer and you are the master who instructs it. Computer Science Lecturer R. Sivasubramanian
told this story when he started the “Fundamentals of Computer
Programming”. This story is a huge
inspiration for me to debug many issues.
A big thanks to him!! Debugging
is more mental than technical.
