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From: doug@eris (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Idea
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Date: 27 Apr 88 22:24:14 GMT
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Summary: Oh! It was *supposed* to be opaque!

I wrote:
>> Speaking of kludges regarding the date, sorry for the miniflame, [ ...]
>> should be *ashamed* to have released a piece of code like ShowDate()

In article <2699@polya.STANFORD.EDU> rokicki@polya.UUCP (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
>It was *intended* (by me at least) to be a magic piece of code;
>the puzzle was to figure out how it worked.  Ditto with my blitter LIFE.

Hmmm. Well, at the very least the next edition of the book should have
a little note saying that it's a puzzle.

But I guess that *does* shed some light on why it was so opaque. Since
it was intended to be, congratulations! Good job! :-)

>Programming wouldn't be half as fun if I couldn't come up with gems like
>that.

Yep. Might want to attach ":-)" to code like that, though!

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