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Ask HN: What's the Lorem Ipsum of programming languages?
I've seen professional videos that include clips of code scrolling on a computer screen. As I would be surprised if they actually used real code from their software, I was wondering if there were any reoccurring formats or types of code that people generate to act as "fake" code?
- DotSauce 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar
- SamReidHughes 16y agoThere isn't. A lot of people would be likely to use code from something popular, like Linux or Quake, naturally.
- instakill 16y agoFunny enough, I was watching The Drawn Together movie last night and there were parts where you had a robot's HUD's POV. When I paused to see what the scrolling code was, a lot of it was CSS with some <script> tags with references to Google.
- T-hawk 16y agoThe Terminator famously used 6502 assembly code from the Apple ][ boot ROM for the robot's point-of-view camera.