Gee, that's like the local burger joint offering free fries to get you into the doors.

"Hey, come visit the hospital to see your loved ones, and stay for the Legionnaire's!"

Colons, not semicolons.

/semicolon languages were the downfall of programming

Very nice. That's a grade A Choice headline you got there. 'Course the young whippersnappers won't get it...

20 Get Legionnaires

All of them?

NPR coverage was better.

Is that headline in BASIC...?

Am I crazy - or did they manage to write a story about contracting Legionaires at a hospital without actually mentioning the name of the hospital?

Endless loop: see Loop, endless.

I think I see a bug in your program, Subby.

This was mentioned on NPR yesterday. This is a much better explanation Link

hp6sa: Am I crazy - or did they manage to write a story about contracting Legionaires at a hospital without actually mentioning the name of the hospital?

Yeah. The hospital was named in a JSOnline story two years ago when the outbreak actually happened. Apparently it took this long to complete the study & publish the press release. Since the water wall was shut down immediately after the outbreak started and has never run since, it probably wasn't important for the purpose of the study.

This seems appropriate to this thread:

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

Pay particular attention to the part about the Latipso.

There's nothing new under the sun.

Deucednuisance: This seems appropriate to this thread:

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

Pay particular attention to the part about the Latipso.

There's nothing new under the sun.

wat

Kids today... they don't know how to edit code.

10 FOR X = 1 to 10
20 REM Get Legionnaire's Disease and Return to Hospital
30 NEXT X
40 REM Play Funeral Dirge Here
50 END

20 Get Legionairres

Doesn't that take 1 keystroke from the user and assign that numeric Legionairres string?

I don't always go to the hospital, but when I do, I certainly prefer getting MRSA infections. Legionnaires is so pedestrian.

here's the missing code:

hospital:
call rape_patient
goto 20

1macgeek: Kids today... they don't know how to edit code.

10 FOR X = 1 to 10
20 REM Get Legionnaire's Disease and Return to Hospital
30 NEXT X
40 REM Play Funeral Dirge Here
50 END

Oh GOSUB yourself.

/you forgot 5 CLS

jigoro: 20 Get Legionairres

Doesn't that take 1 keystroke from the user and assign that numeric Legionairres string?

You're thinking INKEY$. I think GET delivers bytes to/from the serial ports, and needs to be something like GET #1, LE.

/has an early 80's RatShack microcomputer boxed up in the room
//don't make me power that thing up

Deucednuisance: This seems appropriate to this thread:

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

Pay particular attention to the part about the Latipso.

There's nothing new under the sun.

Tee hee.

BASIC medical care.

rebelyell2006: wat

Either you didn't read it, or you missed the joke.

It's OK. There's numerous examples of Anthropology students citing this "research" in papers.

The point in my citing it was that the Nacirema only go to the Latipso when they are very sick, and almost all then die, despite the ministrations of the medicine men.

Lots of code LOL here.

Alea Jacta Est.

Veni, vidi and I get the idea...

Headline is ill logical.

That is truly horrifying...BASIC? Jaebus...

Deucednuisance: rebelyell2006: wat

Either you didn't read it, or you missed the joke.

It's OK. There's numerous examples of Anthropology students citing this "research" in papers.

The point in my citing it was that the Nacirema only go to the Latipso when they are very sick, and almost all then die, despite the ministrations of the medicine men.

Yeah, I didn't read it carefully, just glanced, saw the bit about mouths and thought you posted the link in a wrong thread.

Foaming: #include <person.h>
#include <hospital.h>

const Hospital *nearest_hospital = PRINCETON_PLAINSBORO_TEACHING_HOSPITAL;

get_hospital( Person *self )
{
self->infect(LEGIONAIRRES_DISEASE);
return nearest_hospital;
}


go_to_hospital( Person *self )
{
Hospital *hospital=get_hospital(self);
if (self->infected)
go_to_hospital(self);
}

main(int argc, char**argv)
{
Person self = get_local_person();
got_to_hospital(self);
}



There, much better.

Geez! Don't you ever comment?! I HATE reviewing code like yours!

I started with BASIC in 1981 on my Atari 400.. Nice headline, just brought back some memories.

?SYNTAX ERROR
READY.

Fabric_Man: Foaming: #include <person.h>
#include <hospital.h>

const Hospital *nearest_hospital = PRINCETON_PLAINSBORO_TEACHING_HOSPITAL;

get_hospital( Person *self )
{
self->infect(LEGIONAIRRES_DISEASE);
return nearest_hospital;
}


go_to_hospital( Person *self )
{
Hospital *hospital=get_hospital(self);
if (self->infected)
go_to_hospital(self);
}

main(int argc, char**argv)
{
Person self = get_local_person();
got_to_hospital(self);
}



There, much better.

Geez! Don't you ever comment?! I HATE reviewing code like yours!

//self->infect(LEGIONAIRRES_DISEASE);

actually the getLegionnaires function should be "self.infected = true"... My space to nbsp; filter ate it.

Oh well, can't win them all.

While Legionella has been reported in other places involving water, Ohl says Americans should not be afraid of walking past decorative fountains in general.

What is this? A news article about a smallish disease outbreak that doesn't attempt to scare readers silly? This is truly a commendable-

"I don't think people should be afraid of this," he said. "It could just as easily been the water system in your own home, from a shower at the YMCA...it's really impossible to reduce your risk."

O_O

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.


Is there anything BASIC can't do?

Prevailing Wind: You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.


Is there anything BASIC can't do?

> rape mailbox

Prevailing Wind: You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

Is there anything BASIC can't do?

--- You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

I remember when an AppleBASIC BBS crashed, I was left with the prompt.
Having a Trash-80 III, I opened my buffer and captured the whole code after typing LIST.
I was gonna convert it to TRS-80 BASIC but there were no modem commands in TRS-80 BASIC like there are for AppleBASIC!

Fabric_Man:
There, much better.

Geez! Don't you ever comment?! I HATE reviewing code like yours!

Never mind the fact that he replaced three elegant lines of code with twenty lines of code that won't even compile.

Get off my FORTRAN LAWN !

1 DOWEQ1
MOVELLEGION YOU
ENDDO