Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Finnegans Band of Hackers

“Now, we'll start this band of hackers, and call it finnegan takes. Everyone that wants to join gets to learn a language and write their names in code.”

Everyone was willing. So Tom got out a long piece of tape that he had wrote some code on, and read it. It told everyone to write by hand, cause the head's not working, and never tell if it halts; and if anyone does anything to any one on the tape, whoever detects an error must correct it, and she mustn't eat and she mustn't sleep till she had erased the error and put one back in its place on the tape, which holds the state of the code.

Everyone said it was real beautiful code and asked Tom if he read it off the top of his own head.

Then they all made their final states for the register, and I made a special one called start.