Re: Interesting one-line BASIC program

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Mar 27, 9:36 pm, "Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>
wrote:
> "sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westg...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> ed9ceff0-4fec-42c8-bb68-8d88e08683ba@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com">news:ed9ceff0-4fec-42c8-bb68-8d88e08683ba@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Mar 26, 9:44 pm, Jake Featherston <Jake_Feathers...@comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >> I came up with this in 1984 or '85.  Its a lot of fun.  Sometimes not
> >> much happens, but occasionally you get some really peculiar and
> >> unexpected results.  Here it is:
>
> >> 10 A=INT(RND(1)*65535)+1:B=INT(RND(1)*256):POKE A,B:GOTO 10
>
> >> Just sit back and watch the chaos....
>
> > I'd eject all disks before running this.
>
> That was exactly the first thought that crossed my mind too!

It's okay - the law of irony in entropy states there'll only be a
problem if the disks contain data that's yet to be backed up

Matt