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    • November 23, 2007

    Quite pessimistic

    — srikanth @ 11:04 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195815865 ) Play

    Connect the images to one of the greatest geek culture icons of all time.

    Cracked by: teju, VikraM, prasanth, udupendra, Mahesh, Madan, Gammafunction, Shreyas, Biki, sidsen, and nisha’s thambi.

    Answer: The signature on top makes it a bit obvious, but it was intentional.  These are machine code listings from Mel Kaye, who used to code on an LGP30 in the Royal McBee computer corporation. The “Real programmers” series of messages/memes originated from the hacks that this guy used to pull off. See “The story of mel” on the jargon file for more info :)

    15 Responses to “Quite pessimistic”

    1. teju Says:
      November 23rd, 2007 at 11:52 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195818759 )

      Mel Kaye

      		teju

    2. VikraM Says:
      November 23rd, 2007 at 7:38 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195846695 )

      Mel Kaye, the Real Programmer..


    3. prasanth Says:
      November 23rd, 2007 at 8:05 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195848357 )

      Mel kayes


    4. udupendra Says:
      November 23rd, 2007 at 8:52 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195851120 )

      Unless I am missing something, it’s Mel Kaye of the story of Mel fame – but why would you show a visual with the name not even blanked out?

      		udupendra

    5. Mahesh Says:
      November 23rd, 2007 at 9:11 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195852304 )

      Mel Kaye, the legendary programmer who programmed in binary. He wokred on the LGP-30, The pictures above are of programs written for LGP-30.

      He called his time-delay location as “most pessimum”.

      Read more about “The Story of Mel” in
      http://www.jargondb.org/the_story_of_mel


    6. Madan Says:
      November 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195854778 )

      ANS: Mel Kaye
      …http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Kaye...


    7. Gammafunction Says:
      November 23rd, 2007 at 11:27 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195860471 )

      This is about Mel Kaye- the archetypal ‘real’ programmer-the guy who wrote in pure unadorned machine code.He introduced the funda of relativistic optimality The original prose version here:
      http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

      After countless hours of skulduggery in Mu:P and Mu:C this guy’s skills seem godly.

      “every single instruction was followed by a GO TO!
      Put that in Pascal’s pipe and smoke it.”


    8. Goutham Says:
      November 24th, 2007 at 1:25 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195867553 )

      Donald Knuth


    9. Goutham Says:
      November 24th, 2007 at 1:27 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195867634 )

      He would pay 2.56$ for every mistake found in TAOCP


    10. Shreyas Says:
      November 24th, 2007 at 2:23 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195870983 )

      Mel Kaye – The Real Programmer


    11. Biki Says:
      November 24th, 2007 at 2:55 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195872927 )

      mel kaye ..”real programming”


    12. sidsen Says:
      November 24th, 2007 at 4:35 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195878900 )

      mel kaye


    13. yaksha Says:
      November 24th, 2007 at 5:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195881410 )

      [rip]
      The LGP-30, standing for Librascope General Purpose and then Librascope General Precision

      connect
      ACT-III programming language
      [/rip]

      		yaksha

    14. nishas thambi Says:
      November 24th, 2007 at 9:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195896687 )

      Mel Kaye


    15. Ganesh Prasad Says:
      November 24th, 2007 at 8:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195934420 )

      Mel Kaye


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