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  • The Olcott All-in-One Halt Decider!

    From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Fri Oct 10 01:36:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Well, here it is! Oh WOW!!!! Gos damn... Where is my $$$? ;^D _______________________
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    5 PRINT "The Olcott All-in-One Halt Decider!"
    10 INPUT "Shall I halt or not? " ; A$
    30 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    40 GOTO 10
    666 PRINT "OK!"
    _______________________

    ROFL!!!!

    You can run it here:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic

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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Oct 11 13:04:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/10/2025 1:36 AM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    Well, here it is! Oh WOW!!!! Gos damn... Where is my $$$? ;^D _______________________
    1 HOME
    5 PRINT "The Olcott All-in-One Halt Decider!"
    10 INPUT "Shall I halt or not? " ; A$
    30 IF A$ = "YES" GOTO 666
    40 GOTO 10
    666 PRINT "OK!"
    _______________________

    ROFL!!!!

    You can run it here:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic


    Did I get this backwards? If A$ = "YES" it should not halt? Olcott's
    logic is rather odd to me. Should it lie and never halt even though it
    said it would? humm...
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