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Dave W.
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the_ignored
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Posted - 05/25/2005 : 23:29:00 [Permalink]
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Well, I've done some Visual Basic a while back, so I can see the truth to this one:
quote: Visual Basic You'll shoot yourself in the foot, but you'll have so much fun doing it that you won't care.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm (excerpt follows): > I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget. > Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat. > > **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his > incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007 > much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well > know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred. > > Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop. > Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my > illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of > the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there > and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd > still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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bloody_peasant
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Posted - 05/26/2005 : 05:22:30 [Permalink]
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Ahh come on nothing for Java >:-D |
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Ricky
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Siberia
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Posted - 05/28/2005 : 10:34:23 [Permalink]
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quote: C You shoot yourself in the foot.
And instantly start crying and trying to rip your eyes out while at it, with your bare hands and sharp, pointy nails. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?" - The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs." -- unknown
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Dave W.
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Posted - 05/28/2005 : 11:36:47 [Permalink]
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A wise man once said, Siberia, that C combines the power of assembly language with the legibility of assembly language.
That was, of course, years before the introduction of PERL, a language in which if you leave your own code alone for two months, you'll have to reverse engineer it to figure out just what the hell you were thinking when you wrote it. PERL is now known as the world's most-used "write only" programming language.
Of course, worse languanges abound. Take brainf*ck, for example. And I've learned that someone has implemented an idea I had long ago. Hey, there's even a language out there with a single instruction (subtract and branch if negative) with which useful programs have been developed.
I once wrote an interpreter for a language called BEZ (named for its only conditional instruction - Branch if Equal to Zero), which was rather amusing. The language had no inherent way to call subroutines, but I actually wrote code with it to build and maintain a stack (luckily, you could branch unconditionally to addresses inside registers). |
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Ricky
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Dave W.
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Posted - 05/28/2005 : 12:16:33 [Permalink]
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quote: Originally posted by Ricky
Exactly how much alcohol and/or drugs did it take to get that idea?
None at all. I was posting on the SDMB about BEZ and other obscufatory languages, and simply asked myself what would be the most-difficult language to use. The answer quickly hit me: one in which the keywords, at least, are invisible. And that's all mine did, was make the keywords whitespace, whereas user-defined stuff was typed normally (per your example, " gun foot gun"). The link I provided earlier has everything invisible, though, which is an added bonus to impossibility of maintenance. |
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Siberia
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Posted - 05/28/2005 : 13:09:16 [Permalink]
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quote: Originally posted by Dave W.
A wise man once said, Siberia, that C combines the power of assembly language with the legibility of assembly language.
And I still love the little b*tch. Guess I've masochist tendencies... |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?" - The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs." -- unknown
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Dave W.
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Posted - 05/28/2005 : 13:25:13 [Permalink]
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Yeah, well, me too. I'm busy using C to write an interpreter for a whole 'nother language these days. Lotta fun. |
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Siberia
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Posted - 05/28/2005 : 13:46:48 [Permalink]
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Indeed! I've yet to put my lil fingers on C. My old compiler won't work on Windows XP |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?" - The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs." -- unknown
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Dave W.
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Posted - 05/28/2005 : 19:28:56 [Permalink]
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Visual C++ 5.0 (a very old version, probably available for pennies) works fine under XP. I know because that's what I'm using here at home. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail) Evidently, I rock! Why not question something for a change? Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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Siberia
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Posted - 05/29/2005 : 06:30:32 [Permalink]
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I shall try it. I need my C. I've got Eclipse, which compiles basically anything, but it's messing up with my pointers |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?" - The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs." -- unknown
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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woolytoad
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Posted - 05/29/2005 : 19:50:38 [Permalink]
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quote: Originally posted by Dave W.
And I've learned that someone has implemented an idea I had long ago.
Wow, the whitespace interpreter is written in Haskell, which itself is interpreted (there was a compiler being worked on last time I used Haskell though). |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 05/29/2005 : 21:56:24 [Permalink]
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Well, I've written an interpreter in Java, which is - technically speaking - interpreted. And surprisingly enough [sarcasm], the more I work on the interpreter I'm messing with now, the more it looks like Java. More focused on its particular task (simple games under Windows), but through this process I think I'm discovering why the Java developers made the design choices they did. And that, if nothing else, is making this effort worthwhile. |
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