New updates needed for an old computer language humor piece

Andrew Hamm ahamm at programmer.net
Thu Nov 29 22:57:40 EST 2001


Ric Werme wrote in message ...
>The following wandered into my mail box for the first time in a year
>or two.  Since I've been learning a bit of Python this year, it seems
>to me an update is needed.
>
>For Logo, perhaps: Draw a foot, draw a gun, but the bullet comes out
>the handle and misses the foot altogether.
>
ksh:
export CALIBRE=45
set -a COLT $CALIBRE $CALIBRE $CALIBRE $CALIBRE $CALIBRE $CALIBRE
foreach bullet in ${COLT[*]}; do
    shoot -c $bullet >> foot & echo scream
done
wait && sleep $RANDOM

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