Dot Plan from 1995

Before the inter-twitter-facebook-blogweb, or whatever you kids call it, there was Finger. Finger was cool because only geeks knew about it. You'd post your status to your .plan file and people anywhere in the world could type "finger some-obsure-userid@some-obsure-host.edu" to see it.

It was like blogging, but with an even slimmer chance of having an audience. Great stuff.

Anyway, I was rooting around my old account at csh tonight and found this my .plan:

class CS2

creation
    brain_washing

feature -- Global variables

    student: STUDENT
    clean: INTEGER is unique
    warped: INTEGER is unique

feature -- Main program

    brain_washing is
    do
        from
            !!student.make
            student.mind := clean
        until
            student.mind = warped or world.end_of
        loop
            student.io.putstring( "EIFFEL is Good%N" )
            student.io.putstring( "Don't worry that your executables " )
            student.io.putstring( "are usually over 20,000 times larger " )
            student.io.putstring( "than the source code.%N" )
            if student.resists then
                student.attend_lecture
                student.attend_lecture
                student.attend_lecture
                student.attend_lab
            end
        end -- loop
    end -- brain_washing

end -- CS2

Clearly, this is an important digital artifact to preserve.

By posting it here, I feel I have played an important role in format migration for future generations. Thank you.