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10 PRINT "BBC Developer Portal" 20 GOTO 10 Very nice Easter egg
by hactually 5y ago
10 PRINT "BBC Developer Portal"
20 GOTO 10
Very nice Easter egg
- exporectomy 5y agoThey're all jokes: C:\> C:\> DOS C:\DOS> RUN RUN, DOS, RUN
- aarchi 5y agoSeveral are just ordinary code from BBC repos: https://github.com/bbc/res/blob/master/lib/res.rb https://github.com/bbc/res/blob/master/lib/res.rb https://github.com/bbc/audiowaveform/blob/master/src/SndFileAudioFileReader.cpp https://github.com/bbc/audiowaveform/blob/master/src/SndFile... The JavaScript one is some usage of this library: https://github.com/bbc/http-transport-circuit-breaker https://github.com/bbc/http-transport-circuit-breaker
- aarchi 5y agoOne of the snippets prints Fibonacci in the Chef programming language via a caramel recipe. https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/chef_fib.html https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/chef_fib.html
- lovemenot 5y agoSurely that's BBC BASIC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_BASIC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_BASIC
- II2II 5y agoAnd serious software developers having serious fun. They included the opening scene of Infocom's version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- sharken 5y agoProbably since it was broadcast on BBC back in 1978. Six years later the game was released in 1984. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_th...