Nice try, kid ...

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by catalinist • 18 years ago

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mrtron• 18 years ago

Should have wrote it in Python to save a few lines :)

for x in range(500): print 'I will not throw paper airplanes in class.'

Or perhaps Arc!

jgrahamc4• 18 years ago

(for i 1 500 (prn "I will not throw paper airplanes in class."))

Although, I assume the kid forgot the \n in his printf.

davidw• 18 years ago

"prn"? Ick. Looks like 'porn'! Why not print, or put, or puts or out or just "p"?

BrandonM• 18 years ago

Wouldn't it be easier to type:

(repeat 500 (prn ...))

dima• 18 years ago

Why not use Erlang and make it concurrent? :)

[spawn(fun() -> print("'I will not throw paper airplanes in class.'") end) || N <- lists:seq(1, 500)]

jgrahamc4• 18 years ago

Um. Because writing to stdout will serialize the processes?

jamiequint2• 18 years ago

or ruby

  (0..500).each {|i| print "I will not throw paper airplanes in class\n"}

aston• 18 years ago

500.times {print "I will not throw paper airplanes in class \n"}

chengmi• 18 years ago

Now all he has to do is compile, link, and load!

umjames• 18 years ago

I actually did something similar when I was in middle school. The teacher wanted everyone in the class to write something like that 500 times and turn it in the next day.

I went home and ran the following program on my Apple IIe:

  10 FOR X = 1 TO 500
  20 ?"I will behave myself in class"
  30 NEXT X

  PR# 2
  RUN

With the printer plugged into slot 2 on the machine, this sent the output of the program to the printer.

Needless to say the teacher was not impressed the next day, when I handed in several sheets of linefeed printer paper. I was impressed however.

He made me write it by hand about 100 times instead of 500.

eru3• 18 years ago

In retrospect I wonder why we did what the teachers told us. Mostly.

rms2• 18 years ago

We were trained to obey with the eventual consequences of insubordination being suspension or expulsion.

frankus• 18 years ago

Not as high-tech, but I once got caught writing a column of "I"s, a column of "will"s, a column of "not"s, etc.

mattmaroon• 18 years ago

Cute, bizarre, clever. Good.

dkokelley2• 18 years ago

I find it funny that many of these comments are on ways the code could be improved. We are a strange bunch of people indeed. Still, I laughed when I saw this image.

edw519• 18 years ago

First sentence should have been:

"Funny how much commenting about improving code."

Second sentence should have been:

"We are strange."

Third sentence should have been:

"I laughed anyway."

50.6% as much text.

dkokelley2• 18 years ago

ha(x4) good one! I could have written it in some form of Chinese and used 7 characters.

Nice try, kid ...

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