Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Feb 22 14:10:44 CST 2012
Impressive...why 140 bytes? The vehicle Voyager fired it rockets at exact times, turned its solar panels to the sun and communication array to earth, converted wide spectrum photos to binary, had a dozen more detectors running and communicated all this information back to earth at appropriate times. It had just 64K memory for storage and programs. There is something truly eloquent in creating tight code. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:20 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Binary tetris Came across a site called 140byt.es, dedicated to programming in 140 bytes. There's a version of tetris done in a single 140-byte function. It has limitations,naturally, but it works. Sort of. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/167/3799.html -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. -Dave Barry <http://www.quoteland.com/author/Dave-Barry-Quotes/142/> _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com