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@error@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 2 weeks ago

Look what I found

Here: http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/stuff/pigeons-device.html

An image of a code sample with control flow arrows added.
The code reads:
/* Isn't C a wonderful language? */
switch (mode) {
case 0: if (gloop(a, b)) {
case 1: result = arfle(a, b);
break;
} else {
case 2: result = barfle(a, b);
break;
}
}
return (result);
} — An image of a code sample with control flow arrows added. The code reads: /* Isn't C a wonderful language? */ switch (mode) { case 0: if (gloop(a, b)) { case 1: result = arfle(a, b); break; } else { case 2: result = barfle(a, b); break; } } return (result); }

Pigeon's Device

@ewhac@mastodon.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@error @TomDuff, call your office...

@TomDuff@mastodon.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@ewhac @error Insane. No one in his right mind calls functions arfle and barfle.

@anathem@toot.kif.rocks replied · 2 weeks ago

@TomDuff @ewhac @error I thought those would be listed in the jargon file, but nope.

Found this reference, though (https://everything2.com/title/arfle+barfle+gloop%253F):

A definition article on everything2.com (May 14, 2000):

arfle barfle gloop?

Response of the long-dead Level 9 software company's parser in Snowball (the ancient adventure game on the BBC micro, one of the greatest ever written) to any sentence (more properly, utterance) that it didn't understand.

Might be loosely translated as "what the hell was that supposed to be?".

And much more fun than SYNTAX ERROR. — A definition article on everything2.com (May 14, 2000): arfle barfle gloop? Response of the long-dead Level 9 software company's parser in Snowball (the ancient adventure game on the BBC micro, one of the greatest ever written) to any sentence (more properly, utterance) that it didn't understand. Might be loosely translated as "what the hell was that supposed to be?". And much more fun than SYNTAX ERROR.

arfle barfle gloop?

Response of the long-dead Level 9 software company's parser in Snowball (the ancient adventure game on the BBC micro, one of the greatest ever written) to...

@spacehobo@teh.entar.net replied · last week

@anathem @TomDuff @ewhac @error Hmm, was this only in the BBC version? We at the #RetroAdventurers cannot reproduce. #InteractiveFiction

Florian 'floe' Echtler

@floe@hci.social replied · 2 weeks ago

Astronaut meme: wait, C is just Assembly with braces? - Always has been.

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