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From: cgoudeseune@watnot.UUCP (Camille Goudeseune)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Humor ala Kernighan
Message-ID: <11295@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 18:58:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 18:58:51 1985
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Reply-To: cgoudeseune@watnot.UUCP (Camille Goudeseune)
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In article <4573@mit-eddie.UUCP> whizzo@mit-eddie.UUCP (David Hardy) writes:
>This reminds me of a Fortran compiler I used to use years ago on a 
>XEROX 560 computer:  If you did the following
>
>      ASSIGN xx JAIL
>      GO TO JAIL
>
>In the compiler listing would be the following, right after the statement:
>      GO DIRECTLY.  DO NOT PASS GO.  DO NOT COLLECT 200 DOLLARS.
>
>Anyone else know of any hidden program 'features' such as this?
>
>                       Dave Hardy    (whizzo@mit-eddie)
>
I was talking to a guy a while back who said that a word processor he helped
write about ten years back had a nifty quirk:  While they were developing it,
some enterprising fellow put a machine-code version of Life in a spare 
512 bytes sitting around somewhere.  But when the program was copied for
sales purposes, they'd forgotten to remove it!  So if you hit ctrl-alt-Y or
some such unlikely combination of keys (I forget which), the text on your
screen would immediately be interpreted as 'cells' wherever a character 
existed (and 'blanks' where spaces were), and future generations would start
appearing.  I have absolutely no idea what system or what company this program
came from, unfortunately  :-( .
				   Center of Gravity
				(Camille Goudeseune at U of Waterloo)