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# I WANT TO SEE SOMETHING YOU THOUGHT OF ON YOUR OWN.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 1:32, archived)
# NOT UNTIL I FIND A WAY TO REVERSE WHATEVER IT WAS C# DID TO MY BRAIN.
(I helped save b3ta! We are the lemon irked your craw on, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 1:34, archived)
# YOU CAN'T REALLY RECOVER, YOU CAN ONLY TREAT THE SYMPTOMS
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BY FEELING GRATEFUL IT'S NOT THIS
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sun 26 Apr 2009, 1:38, archived)
# I fear that.
(I helped save b3ta! We are the lemon irked your craw on, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 1:42, archived)
# I wonder if
there any programs that play a proper tune when used in a pianola.
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 1:44, archived)
# so you are asking:
given the set of all programs P, and the set of all songs S, is the intersection P ∩ S non-empty?

I think that we can assume that this is true.

Now, define a 'musical pseudo-quine' as a program that prints out the text of the song that can be played to the tune made by its source; can such a program exist?
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 1:56, archived)
# POINDEXTER!
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 1:58, archived)
# ok so new tv show: poodexter
it's like dexter except he's a poop splatter expert by day and a serial shitter by night
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:00, archived)
# masterpiece
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:02, archived)
# ok so new tv show: sanddexter
it's like dexter except he's a sand expert by day and a postbox by night
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:03, archived)
# disasterpiece
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:03, archived)
# he could work in the glass industry
they use a lot of sand
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:06, archived)
# glassterpiece
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:06, archived)
# GLASS! YOU GENIUS.
There'll be a detective called Clancy Glass.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:07, archived)
# To make sandcastles
while they wait for the glass to cool.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 4:15, archived)
# I'll get the monkeys,
you get the Archimedes.
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:02, archived)
# public class ReverseBrain : BrainManipultor {
void doIt() {...}

}
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 1:40, archived)
# *seg faults*
(I helped save b3ta! We are the lemon irked your craw on, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 1:42, archived)
# Any programming language without line numbers is just wrong in my opinion
I mean, without line numbers, how would you know where you are? Anarchy I tell you. Guesswork at best.

Don't even get me started on subroutines. If I want to go to another piece of a program, I'll damn well goto it (using the line number of course). Returning back to where you came from is for homing pigeons and boomerangs.

(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:10, archived)
# A temp agency once put me up for a job with "00 programming skills."
I went to the interview, the pay on offer was staggeringly good.

"Where's the catch?", I was wondering.

They wanted OO programming skills.

That's true. I'd put a tie on and everything.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:28, archived)
# 00?
I presume they thought that meant twice as unskilled as merely unskilled
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:56, archived)
# Alas, I was a victim of a highly fanciable clueless temp agency girl.
Happened all too often back in the day.

Literally, she phoned up offering me a job that involved "oh oh programming skills".

Who knew?
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 3:22, archived)
# I saw a few ads for software like that
in the back of "Computer and Video Games"
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 4:30, archived)
# Exactly. As ultimately that's what the machine code is doing.
However, it is fair to use a bit of memory to store a list
of returning destinations... in a stack or the like. Name it,
"GoStack" or even "GoSub", if you wish. Perhaps with some
meta data attached for convenience. You could look at it
in other parts of the code to see what was its objective.
Even copy that, and to attach to new bits of code. [/;-D
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 2:54, archived)
# And "LET". What was wrong with that?
a=b? what does that mean? What if a doesn't equal b? Now , "LET a=b", there's some proper manners. Come to that, more languages should have a PLEASE keyword And A THANKYOU would be nice too.

10 GOOD MORNING
20 PLEASE PRINT "Heloo b3ta"
30 PLEASE GOTO 50
50 THANKYOU
60 GOOD DAY

The closest to this level of sophistication so far is LOLCODE with its KTHXBYE command. Unfortunately, it doesn't have line numbers and is therefore shit.

(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 3:05, archived)
# LOLCode is lots of fun, yes.
Most unstructured Basics will "LET" and you can use
numeric Labels all over, even down to a line's worth.

I like COBOL for the politest form. No assumptions!
If you did not state it exactly, it does not get in the
final code stream, period. Lacks a "Thank you" tho--LOL.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 3:12, archived)
# Phwoar.
BASIC good manners.

Most attractive thing on earth!
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 3:24, archived)