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Adam Ben Nalois

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Dec 18, 2003, 12:18:24 AM12/18/03
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This is true.You have input , goes through the colon , and then you
have output, coming out the anus.

So the colon is a computer.

Bill Godfrey

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Dec 18, 2003, 4:49:24 AM12/18/03
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mister...@yahoo.ca (Adam Ben Nalois) wrote:
> So the colon is a computer.

So can I program my colon by eating different foods? How could I express a
conditional branch, or a loop terminated by a change of state?

Bill, mint maize() { pintof("Hello world.\n"); }

gswork

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Dec 18, 2003, 5:55:53 AM12/18/03
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Thomas Stegen

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Dec 18, 2003, 6:36:58 AM12/18/03
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He must have worked hard on this. Some of them are quite funny though.
500 + posts since the 29th of november! All them (apparently, did not
check) in the style of the above :)

I hesitate to call him a troll since he isn't exactly being very
inflammatory...

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Richard Heathfield

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Dec 18, 2003, 1:26:45 PM12/18/03
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Bill Godfrey wrote:

> mister...@yahoo.ca (Adam Ben Nalois) wrote:
>> So the colon is a computer.
>
> So can I program my colon by eating different foods? How could I express a
> conditional branch, or a loop terminated by a change of state?

Alimentary, my dear Watson.

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Jack Klein

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Dec 19, 2003, 12:01:48 AM12/19/03
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On 17 Dec 2003 21:18:24 -0800, mister...@yahoo.ca (Adam Ben Nalois)
wrote in comp.programming:

> This is true.You have input , goes through the colon , and then you
> have output, coming out the anus.
>
> So the colon is a computer.

An obviously false statement. Obviously the output of your colon goes
directly to usenet.

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Anthony Ventimiglia

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Dec 19, 2003, 1:49:07 AM12/19/03
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Thomas Stegen <tst...@cis.strath.ac.uk> writes:
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> He must have worked hard on this. Some of them are quite funny though.
> 500 + posts since the 29th of november! All them (apparently, did not
> check) in the style of the above :)

I found the recent post on comp.lang.lisp pretty amusing, seems I
wasn't the only one. There are worse things than having a sense of
humor.

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gswork

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Dec 19, 2003, 6:43:23 AM12/19/03
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Anthony Ventimiglia <anthony.at.vent...@spam.dev.null> wrote in message news:<87ekv1c...@afghan.dogpound>...

It's pretty obsessive to post 500 quips though! And they do have a
crudity not really appropriate for public groups. Still, they're too
silly to be inflamatory - must be hard work checking the responses!

It's the responses that can be funny though. In one i did read, also
colon related, the advice was to program it in java due to the
automatic garbage collection. hmm!

Nils Petter Vaskinn

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Dec 19, 2003, 6:55:58 AM12/19/03
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 03:43:23 -0800, gswork wrote:

> It's the responses that can be funny though.

in comp.lang.c++ he explained how his penis could program c++ the
best responses:
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Usually, issues with that member are the result of inheritance.
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And always remember only friends can access your private members.
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In comp.lang.c about programming dildos he got these responses:
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No, you shouldn't use C. It's not perverted enough to fully satisfy
your requirements. You need something like COBOL or VB.
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i would be careful about u.b. ;)
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Such hardware interfacing is not provided in standard C
and so is off-topic here.
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