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What was the first methodology used when you were taught programming?
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 4, Funny) by schusselig on Tuesday May 22 2018, @02:55PM (16 children)
The first thing I remember learning about programming was to number the lines by 10s for flexibility. What's a file?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday May 22 2018, @02:58PM
Flow charts and number by 10
Did not vote cuz 'what the what?'
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 22 2018, @04:38PM (1 child)
It's where you keep your paper documents. You know, like printouts of your programs.
(Score: 4, Funny) by anubi on Thursday May 24 2018, @06:53AM
That's a little tool I use to make things fit because I was sloppy at the milling machine. It also helps you get into things if you can't find the right screwdriver.
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(Score: 2) by zocalo on Tuesday May 22 2018, @08:08PM (5 children)
10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday May 23 2018, @07:42AM
That reminds me of a friend of mine that showed me a one liner terminal program for the C64. Neat stuff.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday May 24 2018, @03:34PM (3 children)
Why would it matter of Eunechs are circumcised?
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday May 29 2018, @05:11PM (2 children)
Circumcision is an indicator of whether someone (in this case, eunuchs) is a savage. This can be taken at face value, but it works even better as a way to draw attention to the premise. What is it that the speaker finds civilized about cutting the foreskin off infant penises? The apparent absurdity of the practice leads the reader to question the judgment of the speaker.
But wait! The author didn't actually use the spelling 'eunuch,' which was clearly intentional. Why would the author use the name of a well known computer operating system instead? Does the absurdity of circumcision somehow apply to Unix? Is there something 'savage' about it? Are readers being trolled into putting too much thought into a throwaway line that was merely intended to highlight the homophone?
We may never know the author's true intent, but the insight gained from analyzing it will stay with us for a long time.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday May 29 2018, @05:44PM (1 child)
Sign on Rabbi's shingle:
TODAY'S SPECIAL !!!
Today Only -- Circumcisions
Half Off !
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @07:06PM
that is what mel brooks said in Men in Tights!
(Score: 2) by Revek on Friday May 25 2018, @07:53PM (5 children)
since you invariably needed 11,12 and 13 to fix something.
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:55PM (4 children)
I think BBC BASIC had "renumber", which when executed changed all those "10,11,12,13" commands to "10,20,30,40", updating the gotos as it went along
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday June 06 2018, @04:28AM (2 children)
I am not a savage who would use anything beside Turbo Basic.
Oh those were the joyful days...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by suburbanitemediocrity on Wednesday June 06 2018, @08:45PM (1 child)
Level I BASIC predates Turbo Basic by a a dozen years.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Thursday June 07 2018, @08:25AM
I know... I am not as old as a lot of people here but I was lucky enough to encounter it before the real deal, and use to write something on 486.
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Saturday June 16 2018, @10:06PM
BBC BASIC had "renumber", which when executed changed all those "10,11,12,13" commands to "10,20,30,40", updating the gotos as it went along
I KNOW the BASIC on Multics had that in 1973. I am not aware of a BASIC that didn't (I was writing BASIC and Fortran professionally on Multics in 1973).
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday May 25 2018, @09:49PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSJ8XPnJK1o [youtube.com]
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