6.001 Drag Race

[Michael Oltmans <moltmans@>]

And they're off.  Alyssa P. Hacker pulls into an early lead but Ben Bit 
Diddle is just an instruction or two behind.  They are now approach the 
first branch and in a surprise move Ben has forked!  He's forked!  This 
is a bold move to make so early in the race, and if he isn't careful he 
could starve himself.  But it looks like Ben's move is paying off, he's 
taken both branches of the conditional and has passed Alyssa who had to 
backtrack on account of a faulty prediction.

They're car and cdr through the middle section of the course which is 
very tricky this year.  Whoooaaaa!  Alyssa has pulled her patented 
cadddadr.  We've been wondering if she would pull that one out tonight. 
 Our scouts reported that she's been working on incorporating it into a 
helper function in her training, but the obscurity of the cadddadr has 
allowed her to sneak past Ben who is still only up to a cdadr.

Alyssa is ahead by 3-4 instructions after her amazing execution of that 
move.  As they come into the finalizer, Garbage C. Lector has just been 
let loose and is right on the Ben's cdr.  He better watch out.  Ben's 
taking evasive maneuvers and has forked again.  Lector, confused by this 
turn of events is now going after Alyssa but she's almost terminated. 
Oh my!  Oh my!  Look at that, oh right you can't, I forgot this is 
radio.  Anyway,  Ben has just pulled a move that hasn't been done since 
1979 by Apple B. Sic, he has done an unconditional jump and beaten 
Alyssa by one instruction!  This is incredible.  The drives are spinning 
in their trays and the power supply fans are going wild.  This is a race 
to go into the record books.

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