In article <387B5847.A94D5720@erols.com>, John VanSickle 
<van### [at] erolscom> wrote:

> Nieminen Juha wrote:
> > 
> >   Don't you know that Real Programmers Don't Use Basic? :)
> 
> Real programmers, when confronted with nothing but Basic, use that to
> write a hex editor, use that editor to write a better hex editor, and
> do the rest of their work with that better hex editor.  Real programmers
> can compile stuff in their heads.

Real programmers write the machine code directly to a disk with a tiny 
magnet on the end of a pin.

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John VanSickle <van### [at] erolscom> wrote:
: Real programmers, when confronted with nothing but Basic, use that to
: write a hex editor

  Why, when there's this wonderful little utility called 'debug'?

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
> John VanSickle <van### [at] erolscom> wrote:
> : Real programmers, when confronted with nothing but Basic, use that
> : to write a hex editor
> 
>   Why, when there's this wonderful little utility called 'debug'?

Well, if that's the case, then they're no long confronted with nothing
but Basic, ne c'est pas?

(As I recall, I used debug to write a couple .COM programs...)

Regards,
John
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Remco de Korte wrote:
> 
> >
> > In QuickBasic.
> >
> 
> You are very brave, sir.
> 
> Remco
Breaveness has not much to do with it.... I'm afraid he is very sick and
the men in the long white coats will come and take him away first. Lets
just hope he can post the .BAS first *grin*


Well, Goodieluckie

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And the devil in black dress watches over
    My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
    Black wind come carry me far away
            --"Sisters of Mercy" -- "Temple Of Love"

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John VanSickle wrote:

> That time off before I have to start on the next Rusty animation is
> coming in handy...

Time off?? You're done???

I made an "emergency backup" version of my animation this weekend.  It's
quite buggy, and I hope I have time to complete all my scene fixes before
the deadline! Less than 104 hours to go!

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Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
>   Don't you know that Real Programmers Don't Use Basic? :)
> 
> --
> 
Real Programmers?
Yuck! 8(

They don't use Basic, They Use Capitals?

Remco

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Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> 
> John VanSickle wrote:
> 
> > That time off before I have to start on the next Rusty animation is
> > coming in handy...
> 
> Time off?? You're done???

Yes, oddly enough; I usually am uploading my entry about a day before
the deadline.
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Spider wrote:
> 
> Lets just hope he can post the .BAS first *grin*

Done!  Look in povray.binaries.utilities.

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John VanSickle wrote:
> 
> Spider wrote:
> >
> > Lets just hope he can post the .BAS first *grin*
> 
> Done!  Look in povray.binaries.utilities.

...and I got it to run on the first try. Now I'm going to have to
print out your program description and see if I can get anything
useful out of it...

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John VanSickle wrote:

> I'm using QuickBasic 1.1 (released in 1992).  As far as I know, even
> if you're using GW-Basic you'll be in good shape.

    If folks take the time to read the Windows installation (98 at
least, likely all of them) disk they will be directed to a goodies
directory that is not installed with Windows. QBASIC 1.1 is there along
with a few other "useless" things like filecomp and such. After all we
wouldn't want to confuse people with technical things.

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