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[theuserabides]

Birkin, here you go:

You'll need a C compiler.

[Though the post is addressed to Birkin, it's not locked and the file is available for anyone to download. It's small, only a few hundred bytes, and when compiled...it's a solitaire program. Yes, the card game. Yes, the card game you get free with Windows.

The code's very elegant, though.]

Comments

[entthront]

Well that's boring.

[theuserabides]

My apologies.

[He's not sorry.]

[entthront]

I went to all the trouble of digging up a super ancient compiler, too!

[theuserabides]

It says things like "Solitaire v1.0" in the comments, you know.

[darklycharming]

What is this thing?

[theuserabides]

Code for a program that deals solitaire hands.

[darklycharming]

It means something else? Why put it in code? What are you trying to hide?

Do the pictures on the cards mean something?

[theuserabides]

...It's just C, man. It's not like I wrote it in Lisp or something.

[Even before he got beamed into a computer, Flynn didn't hang around anyone who wasn't a huge geek, and thus he is not quite getting this.]

[notahandbag]

Awesome! You're the greatest!

...What's a C compiler?

[theuserabides]

[:|]

It converts the code into a lower-level language the computer can understand. I can't write in assembly if I don't know your processor architecture.

[notahandbag]

...What?

I'm really bad at computers...

[theuserabides]

[:|]

Is there anyone on your end you can get to help you?