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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 25 Aug 2009 07:52:06
Message: <4a93d066$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
> 
>> this is even funnier:
>> http://www.asandler.com/jokes/computer/c.shtml
> 
> Is this a joke or a documentary?

Look at the URL! :)

> " for(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=C;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("|"+(*u/4)%2);
> 
> To think that modern programmers would try to use a language that 
> allowed such a statement was beyond our comprehension! We actually 
> thought of selling this to the Soviets to set their computer science 
> progress back 20 or more years."
> 
> I could believe that. ;-)

Certainly a well thought-out joke... :)

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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 25 Aug 2009 11:34:58
Message: <4a9404a2$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> this is even funnier:
> http://www.asandler.com/jokes/computer/c.shtml

If a million monkeys were at a million typewriters for a million years, one 
of them would produce Shakespeare.


The others would write Perl programs.

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   Understanding the structure of the universe
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     structure of computers via Tron.


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 25 Aug 2009 11:44:31
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> If a million monkeys were at a million typewriters for a million years, one 
> of them would produce Shakespeare.

  Which law of mathematics is that, again?

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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 25 Aug 2009 11:47:00
Message: <4a940774$1@news.povray.org>
Warp escreveu:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> If a million monkeys were at a million typewriters for a million years, one 
>> of them would produce Shakespeare.
> 
>   Which law of mathematics is that, again?

you missed the punchline.

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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 25 Aug 2009 17:16:29
Message: <72l89516rc8q01g4eo92o2jlp2eq0r4043@4ax.com>
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:34:56 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:

>If a million monkeys were at a million typewriters for a million years, one 
>of them would produce Shakespeare.

Did we not do this to death a couple of years ago?

And Pearl's mother says her tea is ready :)
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     Stephen


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 25 Aug 2009 21:04:20
Message: <4a948a14$1@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:
> Did we not do this to death a couple of years ago?

I seriously hope it wasn't *that* long ago!

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 25 Aug 2009 21:56:55
Message: <4a949667$1@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:04:20 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Stephen wrote:
>> Did we not do this to death a couple of years ago?
> 
> I seriously hope it wasn't *that* long ago!

I'm pretty sure it wasn't, just feels like it. ;-)

Jim


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 26 Aug 2009 02:30:14
Message: <4a94d676$1@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:

> And Pearl's mother says her tea is ready :)

Oh... You must be /Mother of Pearl/. :-D

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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 26 Aug 2009 05:07:04
Message: <nmu995pt02gqm1vsj9ijpq7ih9e8km2bba@4ax.com>
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:30:22 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>
>> And Pearl's mother says her tea is ready :)
>
>Oh... You must be /Mother of Pearl/. :-D

That's an old Goons joke. :)
And it is what I was thinking. You old mind reader, you :)
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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 26 Aug 2009 05:16:26
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On 25 Aug 2009 21:56:55 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:04:20 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>
>> Stephen wrote:
>>> Did we not do this to death a couple of years ago?
>> 
>> I seriously hope it wasn't *that* long ago!
>
>I'm pretty sure it wasn't, just feels like it. ;-)
>

Well I searched OT back to 2007 and could not find the thread.
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     Stephen


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