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Back in high school, I wrote a maze generator in BASIC, that printed the maze using ASCII characters. Then I figured out the biggest maze that would fit on a sh
by analog31 3y ago
Back in high school, I wrote a maze generator in BASIC, that printed the maze using ASCII characters. Then I figured out the biggest maze that would fit on a sheet of 132 column green bar paper, and submitted the job to the mainframe computer.
Next morning, I got an angry rebuke from the teacher. The mainframe operator had killed my program after it had run for quite some time, assuming it was an endless loop. It just turns out my program had some astronomical order of complexity.
I sure wish I still had the source code.
- sliken 3y agoHeh, I wrote a pascal program to draw the mandelbrot set. To make a print out I wrote a fortran program to convert it to postscript. I printed it on a giant lab printer that took up a wall of the lab. It normally printed 60+ pages a minute. My 300 dpi mandelbrot keep it busy for a few minutes, the lab attendant was about to kill the job, I asked for a bit of patience and everyone in the lab came to look at the result.