The Life of an Amoeba

while(1) {
   fork();
}
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Of course, all the while eating the resources around it :)

- Ant

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Re: The Life of an Amoeba by tachyon (Chancellor) on Aug 06, 2001 at 23:40 UTC
HeHe `unless ($^O =~ /Win/i) { fork() until $crash; } print "Why bother, the system will crash anyway!\n";` [download] cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply] [d/l]
(crazyinsomniac) Re: The Life of an Amoeba by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on Jul 24, 2001 at 16:49 UTC
Oh ye of little style: `fork while fork` ;-) ___crazyinsomniac_______________________________________ `Disclaimer: Don't blame. It came from inside the void` `perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H;,$_}split(q;;,qH*));print;$q/$q;"`	[reply] [d/l]
(MeowChow) Re2: The Life of an Amoeba by MeowChow (Vicar) on Jul 24, 2001 at 20:01 UTC
But crazy, this would mean constant, rather than exponential population growth. `fork while 1` is more biologically accurate :p MeowChow s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print	[reply]
Re: The Life of an Amoeba by AidanLee (Chaplain) on Jul 24, 2001 at 06:03 UTC
Perhaps it is just because I am more familiar with the visual arts, but the term minimalism comes to mind `:)`. And although there is a certain minimalism to the Haiku, this feels distinctly western to me. Maybe it's the presence of a punch-line.	[reply]
Re: Re: The Life of an Amoeba by suaveant (Parson) on Jul 24, 2001 at 17:32 UTC
Well... that was kind of the point... Amoeba's are minimalistic, so a poem about them should be... :) And of course, if you run it eat's your system... of course, without any checks maybe I should have named it the life of a bacterium... - Ant	[reply]

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