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   On the first day, the Great Programmer created a new
   text file and the Universe was born.
   The Great Programmer flexed his fingers, started
   hacking, and entered Deep Hack Mode.  
   First He wrote universe.c.  Then sys/laws_of_physics.h
   and universal_constants.h.  The Great Programmer
   continued his Hacking Binge into the second day  with
   sol.c, which begat terra.c, which begat land_and_sea.c,
   which laid the foundation for the creation of life.c.
   On the third day, He gazed upon his Program and saw that
   it was good.  More he produced: prokaryotes.c,
   eukaryotes.c, sys/dna.h, invertebrates.c, vertebrates.c.
   On the fourth day, the Great Programmer, against his
   better judgement,  coded mankind.c.
   On the fifth day, He compiled his work, and received
   1,024 errors.
   On the sixth day, He debugged.
   On the seventh day, He continued to debug.  Rest is for
   the weak.
   On the eight day, the debugging continued.  Only 128
   compiler warnings did He now receive.
   On the ninth day, the program compiled correctly.  Upon
   execution, it immediately coredumped.
   On the tenth day, The Great Programmer debugged.
   On the eleventh day, He debugged.
   On the twelfth day, He waved a dead chicken, but the
   Great Program continued to segfault.
   On the thirteenth day, He discovered the fatal flaw, a
   misplaced comma He did find.  And then void main()
   executed, and the Big Bang did occur.
   Then the Great Programmer leaned back in his executive
   chair, and gazed upon the newborn Universe.
   And frowned.  He knew those sentient humans would be a
   problem. Even after He had sweated over a hot terminal
   for thirteen days, those humans were ungrateful.  They
   called their place of existence the "Universe", not the
   "Great Programmer/Universe".
   On the fourteenth day, he decided to take action.  He
   would send these humans The Meaning Of Life, and soon
   the world would worship Him and his Hacking Skills.
   He did just that.  He inspired a certain human to
   produce a work of art which includes His message, The
   Meaning Of Life.  Eventually the humans would discover
   the .plan of the Great Programmer hidden in a certain
   work of art and all would be well...

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The Great Programmer spake to the humans :
"lo, for thee I will #include programmers three.
One shall create a new Protocol;
One shall create a new Language;
one shall create a new Kernel;
and they will be Good :
I am the LORD."

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This message has been edited by damien_s_lucifer on August 27, 2001 at 02:15 PM

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And then from the depths of hell, came 'the gates' who conspired to destroy the clues to this "meaning of life."
Thus the great programer sent his top programmer 'Linus' to fight the gates.

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The Great Programmer knows GOTO, but jumps not;
thus his code is pure.
The Great Programmer knows threading, but threads not;
he knows the mannered use a fork().
This is the way of the Sage.

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