From: William Corcoran <bill@CORCORAN.LIFE>
To: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] SNOBOL and RATSNO
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:46:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C9100C11-8454-4CFC-AF12-5C2F68CEDEB8@corcoran.life> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2207291416240.81446@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Q: why should you always add a salt to your SNOBOL keys?
A: it makes your code super-cool.
Truly,
Bill Corcoran
> On Jul 29, 2022, at 12:28 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> I did get SPITBOL to work past its expiry date on OS/360 :-) It was
> dubbed as the "Superzap of the year" by one of my CompSci lecturers (Dr.
> G.McMahon, UNSW).
>
> The first couple of time-bombs were easy to find, but not so the rest
> (long story).
>
> Probably belongs over on COFF now...
>
> -- Dave
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2022-07-29 4:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-07-29 15:46 ` William Corcoran [this message]
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