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I stumbled upon this while searching for other obscurities and thought it was just obscure enough to obscure this message board for a while. 
Xyzzy (computing) - Wikipedia[^]
Hint: It's related to a very famous video computer game (not much video in this one).
modified 3-Jan-19 14:49pm.
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Nothing Happens.
Darn it! I have just revealed my age!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: Nothing Happens.
You know your stuff!
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No, I don't grok it. Don't care to grok it either.
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They'll be removing your membership soonly. 
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Another answer that proves how many hours I have spent playing TOCC (The Original Colossal Cave)...
Plugh!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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FEE
FIE
FOE
FOO
I used to have the FORTRAN sources for that on microfiche!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I had the source on green stripy paper. A friend and I wrote a customised version of it (in FORTRAN 4) to run on our college computer (a Pr1me 300B) with our own messages and map. Nobody liked it much so we gave up and I wrote a version of the early Star Trek type game instead which proved immensely popular - so much so that we were instructed to restrict access to it as all terminals were permanently occupied with students playing it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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OriginalGriff wrote: to have the FORTRAN sources for that on microfiche!
It might take you the rest of the year to top that statement!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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It does date one slightly, doesn't it?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Forogar wrote: proves how many hours I have spent playing TOCC (The Original Colossal Cave).
It was all in the name of QA, right? 
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Youngin!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Youngin!
It's the rare insult that makes you feel better.
I just arrived late to the game.
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Extra credit for using both "grok" and "xyzzy" in a sentence. Mr. Peabody apparently fired up the Wayback Machine for you! 
Fun game, back in the day. I spent countless hours lost in those twisty little passages. As a result, xyzzy.txt remains one of my go-to names for a temporary/junk file.
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Eric Lynch wrote: Mr. Peabody apparently fired up the Wayback Machine for you!
That's correct, Sherman.
I really loved the Rocky & Bullwinkle show. I also liked Tennessee Tuxedo[^].
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Wow, that's fantastic!
Now I can to Xyzzy every day!
Nothing happens.
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So I want two lines to not be treated as a paragraph.
Like this:
Line1
Line2
Not this:
Line1
Line2
Google, find this. Says:
A paragraph is consecutive lines of text with one or more blank lines between them. For a line break, add either a backslash \ or two blank spaces at the end of the line.
In Bitbucket's wiki, backslash doesn't work. Two blank spaces does. So now there is a totally f***ing invisible whitespace that indicates a line break.
God, I hate markdown.
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It annoys me enough in QA, and I have it disabled there! Even disabled, it manages to creep in and add code blocks, strike throughs, and such like stupidity to code. Fortunately, it's only there until I refresh a solution, but ...
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Amen.
I just dug through a work request that was in part fixing a boatload of markdown documents so that code blocks in the middle of lists were formatted correctly. Gotta make sure all our text lines up nicely... 
1. something
```
is wrong
```
1. with this
---
1. but this
```
is fine
```
1. gah
TTFN - Kent
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String programming* is fantastic.
But white-space programming...that's another level of genius altogether!! 
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Exactly! If I had wanted to program in Python, I would have hit myself upside my head with a brick.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Exactly! If I had wanted to program in Python, I would have hit myself upside my head with a brick.
Genuine LOL!
But I think it might be more on the order of a boulder-size stoning.
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Especially variable pitch fonts. That leads to using fixed pitch fonts OR inserting tabs and then you have another rabbit hole to dig yourself out of.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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raddevus wrote: But white-space programming..
Can we even call it that anymore?
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