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* [COFF] Re: [TUHS] SNOBOL and RATSNO
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@ 2022-07-29  4:28                   ` Dave Horsfall
  2022-07-29 15:46                     ` William Corcoran
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dave Horsfall @ 2022-07-29  4:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society; +Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers

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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* [COFF] Re: [TUHS] SNOBOL and RATSNO
  2022-07-29  4:28                   ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] SNOBOL and RATSNO Dave Horsfall
@ 2022-07-29 15:46                     ` William Corcoran
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: William Corcoran @ 2022-07-29 15:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Computer Old Farts Followers; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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 15:46                     ` William Corcoran

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