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Re: Interesting one-line BASIC program



On Mar 28, 5:48 pm, Roger Johnstone
<ro...@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> wrote:
> In <47ebc7eb$0$20462$afc38...@news.optusnet.com.au> tonza wrote:
> > On 2008-03-26 23:44:43 +1100, Jake Featherston
> > <Jake_Feathers...@comcast.net> said:
>
> >> 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....
>
> > And how is this program at all interesting?!
>
> If you leave it running long enough it will eventually reproduce the
> complete works of Shakespeare.

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