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[Comic for Saturday, June 18, 2005]

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Scott: I contacted "thePR0PH3T" and he is e-mailing you the code now. He says it is an honor to have you debug it for us.
Fooker: Here it is.

Fooker: Whew... this is pretty complex stuff...
Scott: Yes, it is. It must process all of the usenet archive, not just a portion, and in the original ASCII, not unicode.

Fooker: Well, he gets brownie points for obfuscated C code. Here's the problem: He's got a "count++" when he ought to use "++count". Right, Sharon?
Sharon: Yeah. All his counts are off by one.

Sharon: Heh... maybe that's the "one" you should be looking for...
Patty: That settles it. I officially like these two...

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