Seconded. Idiotic provides some much-needed levity in here - and throughout the web, really. Keep it up!

Agreed...I don't think I laughed at four words so many times in my life. He will be sorely missed.

The inception of the TIENFH wave was a beautiful thing.

THAT'S

I like the waves too. Fun.

FOR IDIOTIC!!

Idiotic is truly a cultural icon - so much more than a one-hit wonder, he/she/it has captured the mood, and the hearts, of a generation.

LONG LIVE IDIOTIC!

Ever notice how idiotic is just like Obama? Cool, collected, never up, never down, and an EXCELLENT speech-maker.

codegen86, your handle reminds me of a group research project I worked on in the late 70s and early 80s, in one of my numerous life phases. A gigantic compiler writer system, much better than the primitive yacc-lexx of the time.

We built an integrated LALR(1) parser-generator (PARGEN) that facilitated semantics, both in the grammar or in the parser, and an extractor to remove the grammar with its semantics from the parser in the form of a grammar to input into PARGEN. That allowed for iterative enhancement, the buzz word of the day.

As well we had an integrated code generator CODEGEN that accepted as intermediate language the output of PARGEN and that also had the extraction capability -- we could extract the code generator specification with its associate semantics (that produced the appropriate machine language), modify it, and input it iteratively into CODEGEN. The whole thing was written in Ada, the only general purpose language with encapsulation capabilities at the time.

We had fun, both creating and extracting grant numerous dollars from NASA. We even used our product, or a contractor firm did, to redo HALMAT for the space shuttle. Now of course you kids have it easy. No punched cards, no non-existent IDE, no add/delete/modify editors, no central printers (for an entire research center) that functioned with couriers, no graphic terminals (much less microcomputers) , and not even any coding sheets.

I assume your 86 points to code generated for Intel's family. Mine would point to age.

funny, I was just thinking of "idiotic" when I saw the post about Clinton being 30 million in debt, and then I saw this one ... :-)

Idiotic, I don't have much to say. But didn't want you to think I was snubbing this thread!

All Hail!!!