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------------- ####-`.........`\| \|.....`.....\| \|...--d--...\| \|...\|.@.\|...\| \|..`\|{@{\|`..\| \|...\|.{.\|...\| \|...-----...\| \|.....`.....\| @ "Oh great OracleDelphi under towering Parnassus, where Apollo's oracle was, plays an important part in mythology. Castalia was its sacred spring; Cephissus its river. It was held to be the center of the world, so many pilgrims came to it, from foreign countries as well as Greece. No other shrine rivaled it. The answers to the questions asked by the anxious seekers for Truth were delivered by a priestess who went into a trance before she spoke. [ Mythology, by Edith Hamilton ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details., whose nose I am not worthy to pick, please tell me:"	------------- ####-`.........`\| \|.....`.....\| \|...--d--...\| \|...\|.@.\|...\| \|..`\|{@{\|`..\| \|...\|.{.\|...\| \|...-----...\| \|.....`.....\| @ "What if Nethack had not been #defined and coded() in C?"	------------- ####-`.........`\| \|.....`.....\| \|...--d--...\| \|...\|.@.\|...\| \|..`\|{@{\|`..\| \|...\|.{.\|...\| \|...-----...\| \|.....`.....\| @ "You didn't grovel enough! Go see for yourself! ZOT"
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Average rating: Good
Number of ratings: 24

Comments

Wellan	August 12, 2008 00:13
First comment: 27 November, 2007	247 comments written
Not everyone'll get the oracleDelphi under towering Parnassus, where Apollo's oracle was, plays an important part in mythology. Castalia was its sacred spring; Cephissus its river. It was held to be the center of the world, so many pilgrims came to it, from foreign countries as well as Greece. No other shrine rivaled it. The answers to the questions asked by the anxious seekers for Truth were delivered by a priestess who went into a trance before she spoke. [ Mythology, by Edith Hamilton ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. reference, so it was taken a bit too far. The takes on the programming languages are funny, though. E.
Slowpoke	August 12, 2008 00:31
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
I wouldn't want to see either geek meme (TIO, or programmer humor) taken too far in teh Dudleyverse, but one is OK, and the combination worked out fine.
idontexist	August 12, 2008 01:11
First comment: 19 July, 2008	35 comments written
Thats pretty funny. Too bad i only know basic.
Soluphobe	August 12, 2008 01:43
First comment: 21 July, 2008	6 comments written
I'd love to give this E, but it got a G. The lack of Malbolge stands out. (Nice use of Intercal, though!) http://www.esolangs.org/wiki/Malbolge
motty	August 12, 2008 02:21
First comment: 22 November, 2006	9 comments written
Too short. Still excellent though.
Toby Bartels	August 12, 2008 05:53
First comment: 11 August, 2007	83 comments written
Nethack is no stranger to the Internet OracleDelphi under towering Parnassus, where Apollo's oracle was, plays an important part in mythology. Castalia was its sacred spring; Cephissus its river. It was held to be the center of the world, so many pilgrims came to it, from foreign countries as well as Greece. No other shrine rivaled it. The answers to the questions asked by the anxious seekers for Truth were delivered by a priestess who went into a trance before she spoke. [ Mythology, by Edith Hamilton ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.: see http://www.geocities.com/dcorbett42/OracleDelphi under towering Parnassus, where Apollo's oracle was, plays an important part in mythology. Castalia was its sacred spring; Cephissus its river. It was held to be the center of the world, so many pilgrims came to it, from foreign countries as well as Greece. No other shrine rivaled it. The answers to the questions asked by the anxious seekers for Truth were delivered by a priestess who went into a trance before she spoke. [ Mythology, by Edith Hamilton ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details./nhoracle.htm (if this doesn't break Dion's comment script).
	August 12, 2008 07:19
First comment: 1 April, 2004	431 comments written
Excellent!
Dion	August 12, 2008 09:23
First comment: 2 February, 2004	100 comments written
>(if this doesn't break Dion's comment script). It does. I have to look into this.
Dion	August 12, 2008 10:30
First comment: 2 February, 2004	100 comments written
Better now (though still not perfect.)
Nesman	August 12, 2008 14:33
First comment: 4 January, 2005	112 comments written
Below, I submit my entry in Whitespace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)
gneek	August 12, 2008 18:06
First comment: 18 January, 2008	159 comments written
***LOLCODE*** Teh kitteh catches teh triep rashion.
Qwernt	August 12, 2008 18:28
First comment: 6 August, 2008	4 comments written
The list panel is especially entertaining.
Quint Sakugarne	August 12, 2008 19:29
First comment: 1 January, 2008	233 comments written
Good, though not Excellent, since I don't get anything but the Java joke. And whoa...Dion is here! Since you're here, could you fix the link in the subtext? Also, Nesman: that's a lot of ghosts.
CKY	August 13, 2008 09:48
First comment: 3 July, 2008	4 comments written
LMAO'd at INTERCAL.
@	August 13, 2008 15:15
First comment: 26 July, 2004	155 comments written
The Java one is just supposed to mean Java is slow, right? I get the BASIC one- BASIC programmers are notorious for using GOTO statements instead of while loops or similar. For this reason BASIC is sometimes called a 'spaghetti language'. I personally don't get why this is so because a BASIC programmer could always just write normally- and BASIC is quite easy to use. I'm surprised that INTERCAL only renamed monsters- I would have expected a language like that to screw with the tileset. That would probably be Malbolge, though.
Antheridium	August 14, 2008 07:14
First comment: 17 May, 2007	442 comments written
Because GOTOS are cool, obviously.
Looney	August 14, 2008 21:04
First comment: 26 January, 2008	29 comments written
Also, if you're using an old-fashioned BASIC interpreter rather than QB or VB, then all your code is necessarily tagged with line numbers, making GOTO statements more natural than in other languages.
rpresser	August 15, 2008 01:28
First comment: 6 October, 2005	51 comments written
Learn some history, folks. BASIC is older than structured programming. IF-THEN, GOTO and GOSUB are direct equivalents to the only way to transfer control in assembly language: conditional jumps, unconditional jumps and JSRs. Line numbers are direct equivalents to memory addresses, which is how you tell assembly language where to jump. Many, many BASIC textbooks wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day. [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. written before the advent of structured programming. These textbooks all told how to write code with lots of GOTOs. These textbooks did not disappear when Nickles' Worth, pardon me, Niklaus Wirth invented PASCAL, and so another generation of BASIC programmers learned badly.
	August 18, 2008 15:43
First comment: 1 April, 2004	431 comments written
> I'm surprised that INTERCAL only renamed monsters- I would > have expected a language like that to screw with the > tileset. That would probably be Malbolge, though. Malboge would encrypt the tileset each turn.
MadDawg2552	October 10, 2008 18:54
First comment: 6 October, 2008	69 comments written
I learned programming with BASIC and Visual BASIC and I never used a single GOTO statement until I tried COBOL.