TV nerdage "Humans"

[SystemParanoia]

Shown onscreen tonight was some code. Probbaby pseudo code that doesn't mean a thing, and also a good chunk of binary.

Before I waste my time trying to make sense of it.. Does anyone know if any of it may be a little easter egg?

Edited by SystemParanoia on Sunday 5th July 22:38

[GrumpyTwig]

The code just looks like some random C crap but I don't think it's in any kind of valid syntax, however in one of the scenes from last episode there are several mentions of a date November 30th 1982.

I can't find it relates to anything in the real world of any note, beyond Michael Jackson releasing Thriller! Maybe it relates to some date within the 'Humans universe'.



p.s the binary looks to be just bits of the pseudo code converted to binary from what I can make out but then it's not 'valid' as such as a lot of it isn't presented as full bytes and it cuts off or wraps a line randomly.

Edited by GrumpyTwig on Sunday 5th July 23:16

[mp3manager]

Lots of similar nerdy stuff here.

http://moviecode.tumblr.com/

Edited by mp3manager on Monday 6th July 14:31

[SystemParanoia]

Thanks for looking..
I was secretly hoping for something that might help the plot of the film.. or even better something silly from the developers

That web site you've linked to is very interesting.
Ill be having a closer mooch on there a bit later

thanks both of you

[Martin4x4]

The code at the bottom of screen is Pascal, not C.

The reference to Beta / 30th November 1982 might be a reference to Borland Turbo Pascal.

[marshalla]

Martin4x4 said:

The code at the bottom of screen is Pascal, not C.

The reference to Beta / 30th November 1982 might be a reference to Borland Turbo Pascal.

Definitely not Pascal, nor Oberon.

Possibly Ada.

(or in at least one case, Linda)

Edited by marshalla on Monday 6th July 22:22

[GrumpyTwig]

Tbh only mentioned C because of the [#include <>]'s in the screenshot.

[marshalla]

30th November 1982 - Eric Thompson's last day on the planet and hence the day Mr. McHenry, Florence, Dylan, Zebedee and Dougal died.

[Martin4x4]

marshalla said:

Definitely not Pascal, nor Oberon.

Possibly Ada.

(or in at least one case, Linda)

It is Pascal, mangled with run on lines but it is most definitely Pascal, you can clear see the following:

1) procedure One(N:Integer)
2) assignment with :=
3) begin / end
4) ; line terminals
5) array[0..N] of Natural

[marshalla]

 Procedure One is begin 

That's Ada syntax. Similar to Pascal, but the "is" is the dead giveaway.

All the Text_IO etc. are also standard Ada packages/modules.

See also : http://sandbox.mc.edu/~bennet/ada/examples/

Edited by marshalla on Tuesday 7th July 08:21

[madbadger]

marshalla said:

30th November 1982 - Eric Thompson's last day on the planet and hence the day Mr. McHenry, Florence, Dylan, Zebedee and Dougal died.

Brian and Ermintrude are ok, though - right?

[marshalla]

madbadger said:

Brian and Ermintrude are ok, though - right?

Brian and family are alive and well and infesting my garden. Ermintrude was last spotted in a milliner's somewhere near Covent Garden whilst waiting to appear in a new production of Carmen.