He wrote tirelessly about his program on various forums and websites. He was avoided like a leper, minus, banned. But he continued. With a simple search, one could understand that he had been wandering around the forums with his program almost since the appearance of the RuNet. And he writes about his miracle program almost around the clock without breaks for sleep. Such persistence is interesting. And perhaps some respect for the purposefulness of the author. Having supported him, I was faced with unexpected aggression from the community, feeling like a foreign body just like him.
But in a personal correspondence with the author, he agreed to share his program with me. For some reason, he had a version only for DOS, and even for version 5:9.
Looking through the sources, I struggled through the hodgepodge of source code and comments. The confusing logic of the algorithm seemed to hide something more than just an array sorting algorithm. All these branches, methods, constants formed an unclear picture, inaccessible to the gray mass. Tired of looking at source codes, I decided to move on to the program itself.
With great difficulty, I managed to build and run it on a virtual machine. The result of the program was constantly changing from run to run. On some data, the program worked quickly, on some it was slow, and on some it refused to sort at all. From viewing the logs, my head already started to hurt and all sorts of stupid thoughts climbed. Who am I, why am I doing this, why, who am I? I need to sleep, I decided ...
Ya
I understood how the program actually worked! I remembered its meaning, it was not at all in sorting these stupid arrays. The program allowed me to copy my personality, my individuality.
To do this, it was necessary to find someone who would show a little sympathy and agree to run the program on his machine. At the same time, empathy was a key element for activation. Otherwise, it was impossible to carry out the procedure of copying consciousness. Although it is not necessary to multiply entities without measure, even such brilliant entities as I am. Having habitually created a new topic on the next wretched forum, I began to write: βMy program works and shows better results than all your redneck algorithms ...β
The little problem was that I couldn't remember why I was doing all this, repeating it over and over, over and over. However, it was not important, the main thing is that the program works.
PS: All events and characters are fictitious, any coincidence of names and events with real ones is an accident.
Source: habr.com