🚀 go-pugleaf

Sam Wilson <Sam.Wilson@ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:Sam.Wilson-2701001007460001@wormhole.ucs.ed.ac.uk...
> What we really need ....
>
> ... is a piece of software that actually makes a computer blow up just
> like in the movies.  This is long overdue.  "Lay" people are extremely
> disappointed when a program or system grinds\wheezes to a halt with some
wimpy
> message like "B037X: USER ERROR IN GAPX TABLE" or "CATASTROPHIC SYSTEM
FAILURE:
> BUFFER OVERFLOW INDICATOR OVERFLOW" or "Bus error - core dumped".  They
want
> to see explosions!  Paper spewing out from wherever paper spews out from!
> And gicky fluid oozing out of the machinery as the entire machine room
> collapses onto itself because someone either forgot to put a %*&#*$#&@ in
> column 92 or asked the computer an impossible question like "What's the
> meaning of life?", "Why?", "CAN you get there from here?", "Calculate pi
to
> the last digit" [THAT'S NOT A QUESTION!], or "Where's the bathroom?"
That's
> a worthy goal for computer technologists everywhere.  Forget artificial
> intelligence!  Forget relational databases!  Forget distributed network
> architecture proposal interface protocols!  Forget documentation!  Forget
> associative memory!  Let's make computers explode in our lifetime!!!

I once wrote a disk formatter that could move the heads across the centre of
the disk, no explosions but you wouldn't be disaponted with the result :-)