Re: OT: Programming (was Re: word creation algorithm)

Scriptum est:
 > >>
> > >> I'm too much of a geek, I guess, but the license
> > >> plates around here (usually of the form "ABC
> > >>123") just make me think of assembly language...
> > >
> > > Nothing wrong with assembly.
> > >
> > > NOP
> > > NOP
> > > NOP
> > > END
> >
> >
> > That reminds me of when I studied Fortran around
> > 1973. We were advised that the new mainframe
> > was so fast, we should end all programs like this
> > to be sure the program actually stopped:  :-)
> >
> > 10 STOP
> >      STOP
> >      STOP
> >      GO TO 10
Would this have arisen in tribute to an early Arthur C. Clarke story (IIRC),
in which a computer runs amok, and is only stopped when the command "I tell
you three times!!" is given?

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