I fully agree, I had written one and eventually ended up using it in a parallel programming class to modify it into a parallel program. It was a lot of fun and

I fully agree, I had written one and eventually ended up using it in a parallel programming class to modify it into a parallel program. It was a lot of fun and the wow factor was definitely there. Since then I've ported it to java when I learned the language. Added features now and then over the years when I wanted to try something new.