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Subject:/f Re: answers to the Universe.
From:Mark Janello
Date:Fri, 29 Sep 1995 20:22:57 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Scott Beckstead wrote:

> of shampoo?  Programmers nightmare an open ended loop.
> Scott

When I was in high school, we had a PDP 8 (I think) computer,
one of those ones with yellow punched tape to store your
programs and huge rolls of that cheap yellow teletype paper
as your "screen."

One student, having learned a tiny amount of BASIC, wrote
this program:

10 PRINT "MR. BOND SUCKS MOOSE"
20 GO TO 10

Unfortunately, he hadn't learned the artful use of 
^C, so he was getting pretty worried that Mr. Bond
would show up as line after line after line printed
"MR. BOND SUCKS MOOSE."  My brother had some fun with
him for a while by telling him, oh no we'll just have
to wait until it runs out of paper. . . . .

Mark
mjanello@umich.edu
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