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Besht answer please

 
 
Or should that be "shimples" ...
 
 
 
 
 
... chortle chortle yuk yuk I crack both myself and Bapsi up ....
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Incimidentally, I struggle to understand much of what's said in freds when most of the words are written in English. Lawd knows how I'm struggling with the gobbledecrap in many of the posts in this one
 
As Garry Bushell might have quothed, "Oi oi no mush".

 
I just don't get it.
 
Much.

SteveStrummerUK
 
... chortle chortle yuk yuk I crack both myself and Bapsi up ....
 

Ja

bapu
I thought the opposite of POP was MOM.
WOW was I upside down on that?

I see what you did

Poor Steve.  The Russians had to use COBOL in English, but Steve doesn't get it!
 
 

Ok, here's the original question:
 

• Dial-in timeshare computers used to require passwords entered while holding the <Ctrl> key down.  If your password was "push" what even simpler password could you have used? 

 
Well, the answer is... "p" (yes, just "p").  Why?  Because <Ctrl>S does nothing and <Ctrl>H is a backspace which, in this example, deletes the "u" leaving only the initial letter: "p" (simples!).
 
And, since nobody got it but me, I guess I'll just have to declare myself the winner and move on! 
 

 

craigb

ston
Programmers do not call this: / "forward slash" :-p
 
It's just slash.  Not the rubbish guitarist with the silly hat either.  This: \ is backslash.
 
! is bang, or perhaps not ;-)
 
What are some of the names TCL programmers call this construct: {*} ? :-D
 
 

This is definitely the most entertaining reply so far! 
 
I don't know if this is the right answer to the {*} question since I'd never heard of TCL (and it came out WAY after I had started coding) but, in the early 70's <*> was a star base in the HP2000 Star Trek game so when the first Star Wars movie came out a few years later {*} was used as the Death Star.  Now, if "I" can think of a few inappropriate alternatives, but I'll simply wait for your answer.
 
(&& I'm != funny either, || == I?)

I used to play that game ALL the time on a PDP 11/70!  (Star Trek, not Star Wars!)

craigb
While I'm waiting for one of my old machines to finish updating itself, here's a quick Nerd Trivia test!
 

• Back in the day, what did programmers call the forward slash ("/"), the exclamation point ("!") and the asterisk ("*") special characters?

 
For extra credit (or to break any ties):

• Dial-in timeshare computers used to require passwords entered while holding the <Ctrl> key down.  If your password was "push" what even simpler password could you have used?  

• Also, why were passwords with the letter "g" in them to be avoided?

 
Good luck! 

Your entire nerd test is based on the invalid premise that programmers actually talked to people.