William Tracy wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> hehe, pretty cool idiom for testing a file... is.good() :)
> 
> double value;                /* or your money back! */
> short changed;               /* so triple your money back! */
>                 -- Larry Wall in cons.c from the perl source code
> 
> Larry Wall does things like this on purpose all the time. (I have no
> idea if Warp did that on purpose--it wouldn't surprise me.)


My favorite was in some mainframe OS source code (in assembler):

; Routines for extended input execution for I/O:
EIEIO:	LD,0 *5   ; With a sync sync here and a nak nak there


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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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