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Yugos used Commodore Basic

mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:11:20 -0800

"The avionics system in the F-22 Raptor, the current U.S. Air Force frontline jet fighter, consists of about 1.7 million lines of software code. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter...about 5.7 million lines of code...Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner...about 6.5 million lines of software code. These are impressive amounts of software, yet if you bought a premium-class automobile recently, it probably contains close to 100 million lines of software code."

Q. Would you like tea OR coffee? A: Yes.

grumblebee — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:47:24 -0800

What real-life bad habits has programming given you? "This has actually really happened to me. I was trying to hang a glass picture frame on the wall and accidentally dropped it. And in the shock of the moment, I loudly yelled 'Control Z!' Then the glass hit the floor and smashed."

The Daily WTF

sonofsamiam — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:51:53 -0800

The Daily WTF features braindead code samples. High-larious to a nerd like me.

Su — Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:55:39 -0800

While poking around today, I found a link to Treefold, which isn't all that impressive in and of itself. The reason for my interest was that it's the first use I've come across of the Proce55ing language, which is a sort of continuation of John Maeda's teaching language, DBN(Design by Numbers). While still not ready for general release, it's grown a lot since the last time I looked at it.

arnab — Fri, 03 May 2002 23:01:15 -0800

Competition to "reverse engineer" mystery program.
Another cool thingy from the HoneyNet Project; they're inviting people to convert a binary file into its original source. So, who's participating?

moz — Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:27:34 -0800

Reassembled. Assembler is back -- at least, in its latest, frozen form. Score one for indie content makers. (thanks to Zeldman; his exit page notes the new URL.)

stevridie — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 04:14:16 -0800

Weird Programming Languages All the info you wanted to know about obscure programming languages

paladin — Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:30:32 -0800

Article on New Scientist about "software that turns everyday language into computer code".