[ale] shell question

[Tim Watts]

On Monday 15 December 2008 11:49 am, JK wrote:
> Jim Lynch wrote:
> > Geoffrey wrote:
> >> Jim Kinney wrote:
> >>> Shell?!? You slackers use a shell? Once you learn hex, you only need 17
> >>> keys...
> >>
> >> hex?  You use hex?  Once you learn binary, you only need two keys...
> >
> > I think you'd still need a third key or button named "Run".
>
> Nah.  You just need an escape convention.  I suggest:
>
> 0 = "run"
> 1 = escape digit (makes the next digit literal)
>
> The first program you'd probably want to write would be
> an LZW compressor...
>
> -- JK

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