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German man programs "Hello World" into wheat field (arstechnica.com)
15 points by nickb on Oct 14, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Strange that he chose "hello world" - being German, you'd expect "99 bottles of beer on the wall."

Also, it's one thing to have bugs in your program, quite another to have your program devoured by them. Then again, he can use pesticides for debugging.

Ok, I'll just stop now.


This would be much more interesting if we had a field reader--like a satellite, but updated more often. It would then be a really low-bandwidth channel to communicate via google earth. However, I'm not sure what you'd use it for.


Finally a programming medium ideally suited for Piet: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html




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