"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.159.1255130283.20261.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:35AM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> >Humourous typo: Near the last page "online assembler" should be "inline >> >assembler". Thought it's true that online asm is forbidden too... >> >> Ha ha, now that's some involuntary humor. Thanks, Don! Also thanks for >> the patches that make the code in the book work :o). > > Off topic, but one day a few years back, I did a quick hello world CGI > program in assembly just for laughs: http://arsdnet.net/cgi-bin/a.out >
That's awesome :) Speaking of things being implemented in unlikely langauges, ever see the high-precision PI computator written in MS batch? http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-A-Batch-of-Pi.aspx > You'd be amazed at how many web people were freaked out by the very idea! > Considering most of the "web developers" I've had the misfortune to work with, you'd be amazed just how unamazed I am at those reactions ;)
