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- Mantra:Start
- New (Counter)
- Msg:Add("Mantra")
- This next sample programs will display some windows &
- and get some keyboard entry. One of my pet projects &
- is making computers say Mantras, and idea proposed by &
- Edsger Dijkstra many years ago.
-
- Tibetan Buddhists use mechanical prayer &
- wheels to pray more quickly and efficiently. &
- Japanese Buddhists of the Amida sect believe &
- that anyone who says "Amida" with pure &
- heart will go to heaven, so they say it as many times as possible &
- in hopes of forgetting and saying it with pure heart once in their lives.
-
- This Mantra system combines these ideas just in case they &
- may be right. Who can have purer heart than a &
- computer? If you run a Mantra system often, perhaps &
- your computer will also forget and therefore insure your place in heaven.
- While (Kbd:Hit==False)
- While (Counter < 40 And Kbd:Hit==False)
- Mantra:Show(Here)
- ++Counter
- While (Counter > 0 And Kbd:Hit==False)
- Win:Del
- --Counter
- Kbd:Bye
- Return
-
- Mantra:Show (Level)
- New (Row,Col)
- Row = Num:Rand(2,10)
- Col = Num:Rand(2,60)
- Win:Add ("Om",Row,Col,0,0,Level)
- Am I a butterfly that
- dreams I am a computer?
-
- Or am I a computer that
- dreams I am a Butterfly?
- Return(Ok)
-
-