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we need more monkeys
by nachox999 2y ago
we need more monkeys
- shagie 2y agoI was recently reminded of The Codeless Code. In that set of stories, there's the Laughing Monkey Clan. http://thecodelesscode.com/names/Laughing+Monkey+Clan http://thecodelesscode.com/names/Laughing+Monkey+Clan Specialists in the business tier, where monkey business usually happens. Members of this clan have a traditional fighting style which involves throwing wrenches at their opponents; this is tolerated because it is not the worst thing that Monkeys have been known to throw. There is a theory that a finite number of Laughing Monkeys pounding away randomly at a finite number of keyboards will eventually get a clean compile. The existence of the Standard PHP Library would seem to imply that this has already happened. I recommend reading from the start ( http://thecodelesscode.com/case/1 http://thecodelesscode.com/case/1 ) and checking the links (since they sometimes have background information - http://thecodelesscode.com/names/Elephant%27s+Footprint+Clan http://thecodelesscode.com/names/Elephant%27s+Footprint+Clan ) and remembering image mouseovers.
- marcosdumay 2y agoThat's only worth mentioning because the PHP stdlib is mostly written in C. The general proposition (for any language) is trivially true since 93% of ink blobs are valid Perl programs. https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/ https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/ (And wow! Search engines are getting even less useful with time. It's incredible!)