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Gib Bogle

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Meer opties 12 dec 2005, 06:02

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Van: Gib Bogle <bo...@ihug.too.much.spam.co.nz>

Datum: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:02:15 +1300

Lokaal: ma 12 dec 2005 06:02

Onderwerp: Re: The Helsinki Code

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slebet...@yahoo.com wrote:
> dun...@yahoo.com wrote:

>>In 1974, Gustav Larsson, a young programmer from Helsinki,
>>Finland, stumbled upon an amazing discovery. While working
>>with a PDP-8 mainframe computer, Gustav suddenly because
>>bored. He decided to attempt to compile a single byte
>>program. For what reasons we cannot know.

>>Nevertheless, Gustav was already familiar with RTPS FORTRAN
>>and thus picked a single character to represent the
>>contents of the program: "@". Once compiled, he expected
>>nothing to happen.

>>He was wrong. To his absolute amazement, it compiled
>>successfully!

>>Using an ARS-33 Teletype, Gustav printed out the 1 byte program
>>followed by its output. It appeared to contain a message from
>>God.

> Almost certainly not from God.

Right. It sounds like the Devil to me.

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