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[solarbird]

from cow's moo:

solarbird sends, ** okay so i ported ` and ' from moo over to the housemush (in mushcode) because i like ` and i included ' for completeness. ** (These are moo commands for various ways of saying things)
solarbird sends, ** but then it turned out debs was using ' for something on herself and so was getting double triggers, so i changed ' to '' on the moobox object i made to hold moo commands **
solarbird sends, ** and then i thought "well that defeats the purpose doesn't it?" and added a command on myself personally to have ' trigger '' **
solarbird sends, ** only i forgot the object search hierarchies for commands (and also the command-parsing rules) **
solarbird sends, ** so when i tried it it triggered lulz **
solarbird sends, ** in the form of infinite recursion **
solarbird sends, ** and that's how i reinvented while (1) fork(); in mushcode tonight **
solarbird sends, ** the best part was that it was still running after i dropped and reconnected **
solarbird edited the code live to make it stop. @whee mush is weird.

Comments

[janne.livejournal.com]

@whee! Ah, the days of mush coding and trying to beat runway code while everything ground to a halt :)

[kendaer.livejournal.com]

LOL.. I apologize, most profusely, for the hack that is modern MUSH servers.

[solarbird]

Modern? I think you misspelled "all." ^_^

[z111.livejournal.com]

You moo?

It's been ages since I've logged in, but I've been on lambda moo for about a half a forever, and helped run some moos back in the day.

MOO was how I first taught myself to program.

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Fork!

It has been a minor goal of mine to someday make a set of brass knuckles with words on them, a la "LOVE" and "HATE" from "Do The Right Thing".

'Cept they will be "FORK" and "EXEC". :>

[solarbird]

Just for social hanging out, not for reals. ^_^