Code that will only execute once

Re:Code that will only execute once by call on Saturday June 07, 2014 @11:51PM (#7863914)

This sort of reminded me of Phillip K. Dick's art book Agrippa [1], which was given a limited release on a floppy disk that would corrupt itself after its contents are displayed on a computer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa_%28A_Book_of_the_Dead%...

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Re:Code that will only execute once by herokusaki on Sunday June 08, 2014 @12:52AM (#7864006)

You mean William Gibson's. Note how despite the author's intentions (or perhaps because of them) "pirated text of the poem was released the next day on MindVox."

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Re:Code that will only execute once by schoen on Sunday June 08, 2014 @01:33AM (#7864058)

I was a bit obsessed with that poem (and the fact that it leaked!) in high school.

I still think it was well-done and love the theme of "the mechanism".

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