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Don't miss the program he wrote after teaching himself BASIC from a book at age six (Fig 5 / book page 222 / PDF page 10): > 320 print "(brmmmm-brmmmm-putt-put
by svat 8mo ago
Don't miss the program he wrote after teaching himself BASIC from a book at age six (Fig 5 / book page 222 / PDF page 10):
> 320 print "(brmmmm-brmmmm-putt-putt-vraow-chatter-chatter bye mr. fibonacci!)"
- nananana9 8mo agoThis does feel like something a super smart alien pretending to be an 8 year old would write.
- whatshisface 8mo agoSometimes I wonder if HNers have met more aliens than 8 year olds.
- dfex 8mo agoThat program listing hit me right in the feels. I remember when I was 6 or 7 teaching myself Applesoft BASIC and writing programs with funny (to me) little print statements all through them - when computing was just exploding with possibility. I wouldn't have had a clue what a Fibonacci sequence was though ;)
- aa-jv 8mo agoFound myself counting characters in case there was an easter egg in there. Spoiler: there isn't an easter egg in there.
- svat 8mo agoThe whole program is an Easter egg :) “sorry, he wasn’t born yet! try again” vs “no, he is already in heaven, try again”, and that cute goodbye routine.