Subj : Re: Syntax, style, the infinite monkey theorum and coding
To   : comp.programming
From : Rob Thorpe
Date : Tue Aug 23 2005 02:15 am

Mike wrote:
> In article <1124700325.345508.95660@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, robert.thorpe@antenova.com says...
> > 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!
> >
> > So does anything written in TECO.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Editor_and_Corrector
> >
> > Somewhere on the net there's code for original ITS Emacs written in
> > TECO, it's quite something.
>
> Looks _exactly_ like something my cat "wrote" last night.

Whatever your cat wrote would probably do something.  Since it's a cat,
probably format the hard drive.

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