This is a particularly funny bug to write in pseudo-BASIC; considering that in BASIC a single '=' is used to test for equality, as well as for assignment.
Writing in mixed case is a vector for errors in languages where case is significant, and even where it isn't, simply reading the code requires your brain to work harder, thus making it more likely that you will miss something important. The more unnecessary effort you have to expend, in reading or writing code, the more opportunity you have for making mistakes, and the less opportunity you have for being creative. Don't bother bringing up IDEs as a way to cut back on mistakes, or to help creativity. Real programmers don't need them. I still program in PL/I under OS/360 on Hercules, and that compiler hasn't been updated since about 1972. Ah, simpler times: when your keyboard weighed more than one of today's laptops, when real engineers built both the hardware and the software, and when CamelCase was merely a waking dream.
On reflection I think I may have been trolling. Personally, I prefer lower case with dashes interposing distinct words. I've rarely gotten to use that in practice but haven't cared much. I didn't realize people got so upset about things like letter case. It seems like that would hinder creativity or at the very least waste time.
> Don't bother bringing up IDEs as a way to cut back on mistakes, or to help creativity. Real programmers don't need them. I still program in PL/I under OS/360 on Hercules, and that compiler hasn't been updated since about 1972. Ah, simpler times: when your keyboard weighed more than one of today's laptops, when real engineers built both the hardware and the software, and when CamelCase was merely a waking dream.
Whoa ouch. I don't measure up to that at all. I'd love to be skilled enough to design/build my own hardware. I just don't think it'd help me build websites or do much else. I don't use an IDE though so hopefully that is making me more productive in some way.
sounds like a healthy startup company to me. I loved the insider jokes that got passed around at the last good startup I worked at. We had a bugzilla bug passed around for 4 years and several hundred people before the company got bought out and went to hell. It was a good run though.
So is structured development really better than off-the-cuff development? In this case it sure looks like a structured environment would have caught the bug in the original code but it also means 10 times more people getting their fingers in the pie.
Before we all agree that BASIC is indeed dead, I have a friend that recently reached out to me for some help writing an AppleSoft BASIC app for some CS course. Never figured out why someone is still teaching it...
The real question is what self-respecting programmer would instinctively reach for BASIC as the language to write a joke in? Methinks this says more about the jokester than he wanted to say...
Vouch. I remember spending the entirety of my math class writing games on my TI-83+. I still hate my instructor for wiping my memory when she thought I was playing them and not writing them.
I remember the day I discovered an assembly program that mimicked a memory wipe, but could be restored with a hotkey combination. I was so damn smug after that.
I don't understand what you mean. Are you referring to some pro or con within BASIC or BaCon, or are you referring to the sentence being incorrect (given that "both" should be "neither")? Regardless, I like BaCon because it's easy, fast, updated regularly, and passes cleanly through to C. My black, British cat, Mr. Fluffer Wickbidget, III, also likes bacon. You may think that fact is not relevant here, but it is when you run out milk, as I now see that I have.
I modified the hello world example on Wikipedia. I have to say, brainfuck is nowhere near as difficult to understand once you get used to the syntax. Kind of reminds me of ARM Assembly, in a way.
This is a particularly funny bug to write in pseudo-BASIC; considering that in BASIC a single '=' is used to test for equality, as well as for assignment.
I can see why they need all that process.