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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: DF3 utility
Date: 31 Jan 2008 23:56:58
Message: <47a2a69a$1@news.povray.org>

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


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

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: DF3 utility
Date: 1 Feb 2008 12:50:36
Message: <47a35bec@news.povray.org>

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:56:59 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> 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

LOL!

Jim

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