November 23, 2007
Quite pessimistic
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 :)
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November 23rd, 2007 at 11:52 am, GMT -0800 ( 1195847559 )
Mel Kaye
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:38 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1195875495 )
Mel Kaye, the Real Programmer..
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:05 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1195877157 )
Mel kayes
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:52 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1195879920 )
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?
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:11 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1195881104 )
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
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1195883578 )
ANS: Mel Kaye
…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Kaye…
November 23rd, 2007 at 11:27 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1195889271 )
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.”
November 24th, 2007 at 1:25 am, GMT -0800 ( 1195896353 )
Donald Knuth
November 24th, 2007 at 1:27 am, GMT -0800 ( 1195896434 )
He would pay 2.56$ for every mistake found in TAOCP
November 24th, 2007 at 2:23 am, GMT -0800 ( 1195899783 )
Mel Kaye - The Real Programmer
November 24th, 2007 at 2:55 am, GMT -0800 ( 1195901727 )
mel kaye ..”real programming”
November 24th, 2007 at 4:35 am, GMT -0800 ( 1195907700 )
mel kaye
November 24th, 2007 at 5:16 am, GMT -0800 ( 1195910210 )
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The LGP-30, standing for Librascope General Purpose and then Librascope General Precision
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ACT-III programming language
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November 24th, 2007 at 9:31 am, GMT -0800 ( 1195925487 )
Mel Kaye
November 24th, 2007 at 8:00 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1195963220 )
Mel Kaye