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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | If you want X, you know where to find it. There is a legend that Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C, once responded to demands for features resembling those of what at the time was a much more popular language by observing "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it." Ever since, this has been hackish standard form for fending off requests to alter a new design to mimic some older (and, by implication, inferior and baroque) one. The case X = Pascal manifests semi-regularly on Usenet's comp.lang.c newsgroup. Indeed, the case X = X has been reported in discussions of graphics software (see X). Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 46 59 4F 55 57 41 4E 54 58 2C 59 4F 55 4B 4E 4F 57 57 48 45 52 45 54 4F 46 49 4E 44 49 54 2E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01000110 00100000 01011001 01001111 01010101 00100000 01010111 01000001 01001110 01010100 00100000 01011000 00101100 00100000 01011001 01001111 01010101 00100000 01001011 01001110 01001111 01010111 00100000 01010111 01001000 01000101 01010010 01000101 00100000 01010100 01001111 00100000 01000110 01001001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01001001 01010100 00101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I F   Y O U   W A N T   X ,   Y O U   K N O W   W H E R E   T O   F I N D   I T . |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0046 0059 004F 0055 0057 0041 004E 0054 0058 002C 0059 004F 0055 004B 004E 004F 0057 0057 0048 0045 0052 0045 0054 004F 0046 0049 004E 0044 0049 0054 002E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4340259495525735485425814259495524548495725742395239254492404348382435416 |
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