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Computing | Like kicking dead whales down the beach adj. Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting process. First popularized by a famous quote about the difficulty of getting work done under one of IBM's mainframe OSes. "Well, you _could_ write a C compiler in COBOL, but it would be like kicking dead whales down the beach." See also fear and loathing. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: LIKE KICKING DEAD WHALES DOWN THE BEACH |
| Specialty definitions using "LIKE KICKING DEAD WHALES DOWN THE BEACH": whales. (references) |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 49 4B 45 4B 49 43 4B 49 4E 47 44 45 41 44 57 48 41 4C 45 53 44 4F 57 4E 54 48 45 42 45 41 43 48 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01001001 01001011 01000101 00100000 01001011 01001001 01000011 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000100 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01010111 01001000 01000001 01001100 01000101 01010011 00100000 01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000010 01000101 01000001 01000011 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L I K E   K I C K I N G   D E A D   W H A L E S   D O W N   T H E   B E A C H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0049 004B 0045 004B 0049 0043 004B 0049 004E 0047 0044 0045 0041 0044 0057 0048 0041 004C 0045 0053 0044 004F 0057 004E 0054 0048 0045 0042 0045 0041 0043 0048 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)464345392454337454348412383935382574235463953238495748254423923639353742 |
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