Re: Parse wunderground.com

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From: Cydrome Leader
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:30

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Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> In article presence@MUNGEpanix.com says...
>> >> > there's nothing wrong with goto or line numbers.
>> >> > 
>> >> > The only really bad command some basics had was POP
>> >> 
>> >> I thought it was the PUSH that did you in.
>> > 
>> > oops.  I meant POKE instead of PUSH.   (but facebook patented that).
>> 
>> poke and peek were fine. There's nothing wrong with reading or writing to 
>> memory or devices.
>> 
>> basic haters are people that should not work with computers.
> 
> Punch this into your TRS-80
> 
> 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10

semicolon colon looks suspect.

this is also a convoluted shitty way to print a slash or back slash. 
whoever write it is a shitty programmer.






> 
> The following link puts this into context.
> 
> http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/books/2012/11/computer_programm
> ing_10_print_chr_205_5_rnd_1_goto_10_from_mit_press_reviewed.html

this is stupid.

> BTW:  IIRC, you could poke into memory you weren't supposed to which 
> could cause a system freeze.  

That's an operating system issue, not a language one.

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From: Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>
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Subject: Re: Parse wunderground.com
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:30:40 +0000 (UTC)
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