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I remember having some Microsoft documentation in the mid 90s for using DDE (an early Windows way of passing messages to different running applications).

I forget the specifics of how the example code worked but it acted as both a sender and receiver of DDE messages and did so by executing itself. I remember spending a good 30 minutes trying to work out how the example worked before giving up and doing the classic “let’s just run it and see what happens” approach.

The example code from Microsoft turned out to be a fork bomb and it quickly crashed my machine.

It took me a long time to trust Microsoft documentation again after that incident.