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From: trudel@topaz.rutgers.edu (Jonathan D.)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: What the world needs now
Message-ID: <12067@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 15:01:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.12067
Posted: Mon May 18 15:01:57 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 04:12:14 EDT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: Originally from a friend
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... is a piece of software that actually makes a computer blow up just
like in the movies.  This is long overdue.  "Lay" people are extremely
disappointed when a program or system grinds/wheezes to a halt with some wimpy
message like "B037X: USER ERROR IN GAPX TABLE" or "CATASTROPHIC SYSTEM FAILURE:
BUFFER OVERFLOW INDICATOR OVERFLOW" or "Bus error - core dumped".  They want
to see explosions!  Paper spewing out from wherever paper spews out from!
And gicky fluid oozing out of the machinery as the entire machine room
collapses onto itself because someone either forgot to put a %*&#*$#&@ in
column 92 or asked the computer an impossible question like "What's the
meaning of life?", "Why?", "CAN you get there from here?", "Calculate pi to
the last digit" [THAT'S NOT A QUESTION!], or "Where's the bathroom?"  That's
a worthy goal for computer technologists everywhere.  Forget artificial
intelligence!  Forget relational databases!  Forget distributed network
architecture proposal interface protocols!  Forget documentation!  Forget
associative memory!  Let's make computers explode in our lifetime!!!
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