Computer Language

Fritz was working early one Saturday morning when he noticed his computer doing some really peculiar things. Each time he would give his computer a command, the word NO would appear on the screen. The first time it happened, Fritz thought it was pretty funny.

“So you don’t want to do what you’re told?” laughed Fritz. He tried a few other commands and still got the same response. When Fritz told the computer to print, the word NO appeared. When Fritz told the computer to open the email, the same letters appeared again.

“What is going on?” asked Fritz. He no longer thought it was funny. Fritz scratched his head and shut down his computer. He was relieved to see the computer start to shut down. But it was taking a long time. He was frustrated with how long it was taking. He wanted to get the science report over with so that he could move on to more interesting things.

Once the computer was finally dark and quiet, Fritz booted it up again. Everything was happening as it was supposed to, until Fritz tried to open his word processor program. Those two little letters appeared again. Fritz stared at the computer.

Suddenly, he had an idea. Fritz slowly typed the following into the keyboard: “Yes you will.” The letters appeared on the screen just as Fritz had typed them. Suddenly, he turned his computer off again.

This was too much to comprehend. He couldn’t actually believe he was talking with his computer!