I think between this and Walter's pebbles crushed under the wheels of wagons
we've just about reached the profitable end of this joke. But just to put
the nail in the coffin, what predated this was cave paintings in BASIC. Been
there, done that.
Roy
On 4/4/08 8:21 AM, "Mark Sandford" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 01010111 01101000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01111001 01101111
> 01110101 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100
> 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100100 01110010 01100101
> 01100001 01101101 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100010
> 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00101100 00100000
> 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111
> 01110111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101000
> 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111
> 01100010 01101100 01100101 01101101 01110011 00101110
>
> 01001101 01100001 01110010 01101011
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Ryan Ordway <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> main(t,_,a)
>> char *a;
>> {
>> return!0<t?t<3?main(-79,-13,a+main(-87,1-_,main(-86,0,a+1)+a)):
>> 1,t<_?main(t+1,_,a):3,main(-94,-27+t,a)&&t==2?_<13?
>> main(2,_+1,"%s %d %d\n"):9:16:t<0?t<-72?main(_,t,
>> "@n'+,#'/*{}w+/w#cdnr/+,{}r/*de}+,/*{*+,/w{%+,/w#q#n+,/#{l+,/n{n+,/+#n
>> +,/#\
>> ;#q#n+,/+k#;*+,/'r :'d*'3,}{w+K w'K:'+}e#';dq#'l \
>> q#'+d'K#!/+k#;q#'r}eKK#}w'r}eKK{nl]'/#;#q#n'){)#}w'){){nl]'/+#n';d}rw'
>> i;# \
>> ){nl]!/n{n#'; r{#w'r nc{nl]'/#{l,+'K {rw' iK{;[{nl]'/w#q#n'wk nw' \
>> iwk{KK{nl]!/w{%'l##w#' i; :{nl]'/*{q#'ld;r'}{nlwb!/*de}'c \
>> ;;{nl'-{}rw]'/+,}##'*}#nc,',#nw]'/+kd'+e}+;#'rdq#w! nr'/ ') }+}
>> {rl#'{n' ')# \
>> }'+}##(!!/")
>> :t<-50?_==*a?putchar(31[a]):main(-65,_,a+1):main((*a=='/')+t,_,a+1)
>> :0<t?main(2,2,"%s"):*a=='/'||main(0,main(-61,*a,
>> "!ek;dc i@bK'(q)-[w]*%n+r3#l,{}:\nuwloca-O;m .vpbks,fxntdCeghiry"),a+1);
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 3, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Jeremy Frumkin wrote:
>>
>>> ..- .-.. .-.. .. .----. -- --. --- .. -. --. - --- ... .-
>>> -.-- .-
>>> -... --- ..- - - .... .. ... - .... .-. . .- -.. .. ...
>>> - .... .- -
>>> -. --- -. . --- ..-. -.--
>>> --- ..- ... ..- ..-. ..-. . .-. ..-. .-.
>>> --- -- .-. -- .. - .... . .-- .- -.-- .. -..
>>> --- .-- .... . -.
>>> .. ..- ... . -- -.-- .--. .-. . ..-. . .-. .-. . -.. ..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -. .--. ..-
>>> - -.. . ...- .. -.-. . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-
>>>
>>> -....- -....- .--- .- ..-.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/3/08 6:51 AM, "Walter Lewis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sebastian Hammer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> A true hacker has no need for these crude tools. He waits for
>>>>>> cosmic
>>>>>> radiation to pummel the magnetic patterns on his drive into a
>>>>>> pleasing
>>>>>> and functional sequence of bits.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Alas, having been doing this (along with my partners, the four
>>>> Yorkshiremen) since the Stone Age ...
>>>>
>>>> We used to arrange pebbles in the middle of road into the relevant
>>>> patterns (we *dreamed* of being able to afford the wire for an
>>>> abacus).
>>>> Passing carts would then help "crunch" the numbers.
>>>>
>>>> Walter
>>>> for whom graph paper, templates, pencils, 80 column punchcards and
>>>> IBM Assembler were formative experiences
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ===============================================
>>> Jeremy Frumkin
>>> Head, Emerging Technologies and Services
>>> 121 The Valley Library, Oregon State University
>>> Corvallis OR 97331-4501
>>>
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> 541.602.4905
>>> 541.737.3453 (Fax)
>>> ===============================================
>>> " Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes
>>> nothing. "
>>> - Emerson
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ryan Ordway E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>> Unix Systems Administrator [log in to unmask]
>> OSU Libraries, Corvallis, OR 97331 Office: Valley Library #4657
>>
>
>
>
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> Mark Sandford
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