Subj : Re: Syntax, style, the infinite monkey theorum and coding
To   : comp.programming
From : gswork
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 02:54 am


Rob Thorpe wrote:
> gswork@mailcity.com wrote:
[]
> > Code snippets with that 'monkeys' feel are kind of like modern art -
> > you're aware that it's supposed to mean something and that it may well
> > be very clever, but you can't help feeling that a 3 year old, or indeed
> > a money, would happily and readily, but unintentially, hammer out the
> > exact same!
>
> The message cracker macros look a bit this way:
> http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~squire/download/WindowsX.h

This one has a kind of rythm to it, something un-random.   Lovely use
of CAPITALS though.

> So does anything written in TECO.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Editor_and_Corrector

That's a wonder to behold

 qz"g 0uz @o/START/ '

Little code gets more 'thousand monkeys' than this!

> Somewhere on the net there's code for original ITS Emacs written in
> TECO, it's quite something.

I'll bet!!

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