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Eeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you do" in a gloomy manner to Pooh.
"And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to felt at all how for a long time." -
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Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View PostIn the Olden Days, you used to get program listings in the computer mags, you would spend hours typing them into your computer only to find there was a fatal eror in the printout somewhere.
I remember one long one that my dad had typed into his BBC Micro... wrestled with it, checked, double checked, triple checked... in the end he waited for me to come home from Uni for the hols.
A quick look and I was able to see that there was a stray speck of ink on the plate when the mag was printed, which was shaped almost perfectly like a comma, and appeared in a space between two characters where no comma should be
Removed the errant comma from the code, and it ran perfectlyComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostGood way of learning how to debug other people's spaghetti code, though
Originally posted by NickFitz View PostRemoved the errant comma from the code, and it ran perfectlyCooking doesn't get tougher than this.Comment
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To the tune of ‘Swing Low’ the rugby anthem
Please go, sweet Harriet
Go away and never come home
Please go, sweet Harriet
Fathers want their children home...
(and not stuck in bloody court for donkey’s years!)Comment
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How about a thread all about the joys (or lack thereof) of the ASSIGNED GOTO in FORTRAN?
http://objectmix.com/programming-lan...-web-site.htmlComment
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Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View PostIn the early days that was possible, but nearer the end of the "type your own game" era, they started to do more in machine code, so you just had long lines of comma separated data which was poked into memory by the program and executed, and if one of those numbers was wrong, you had no idea what was going on unless you could read machine code (which I could, )
That's how I started learning 6502, which was ultimately to lead to my first real job as a Junior Systems Software Engineer, writing control software for Teletext transmission units in Forth and assemblerComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/c.../2008/jul/08/1
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