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whermans | 6 years ago

A Python fork bomb was my first major achievement in college. Four lines of code took out a server. I'd like to claim it was a great achievement in hacking but nope, just trying to grok concurrency and failing hard.

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FrameworkFred|6 years ago

I did this exact thing with Perl, 1993...I'd just switched majors from English to CS. Very much expected an invitation to switch back.