Daily Archives: October 23rd, 2007

Google Translate’s Strange Results

Here’s something pointed out by a guy on Reddit, who took his cue from an entry in the French blog Zorgloob: take a look what happens when you enter sarkozy sarkozy sarkozy (as in French president Nicolas Sarkozy) into Google Translate and select a French-to-English translation:

Here’s some other input that yields interesting output:

sarkozy is chirac [...]

The REAL Reason GOTO is Considered Harmful

Comic taken from the book Thinking Forth.Click the comic to see it in its original context.
(If you’re wondering why someone would GOTO a number, it’s likely that you’re too young to have worked with versions of BASIC that required line numbers. Consider yourself very, very, very lucky.)