🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Article #3732

Re: Turbo Pascal vs C vs REAL PROGRAMMERS!

#3732
From: Roy M. Silvernail
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 02:58
15 lines
980 bytes
phys169@canterbury.ac.nz writes:

> INTEGER programmers write in ZX80 BASIC

I remember that!

"The square root of 4 is 2."
"The square root of 5 is between 2 and 3."
(output from the ZX80 square root program in the "programmer's guide")

I sent mine back after the 7-day trial. ;-)
--
Roy M. Silvernail |+|  roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu  |+| #define opinions ALL_MINE;
main(){float x=1;x=x/50;printf("It's only $%.2f, but it's my $%.2f!\n",x,x);}
"This is cyberspace." -- Peter da Silva  :--:  "...and I like it here!" -- me
Technical Details
Message-ID: <1gNLq3w163w@cybrspc>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!srcsip!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!cybrspc!roy
References: <1990Oct5.114353.9325@canterbury.ac.nz>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!srcsip!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!cybrspc!roy
From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal vs C vs REAL PROGRAMMERS!
Message-ID: <1gNLq3w163w@cybrspc>
Date: 6 Oct 90 02:58:59 GMT
References: <1990Oct5.114353.9325@canterbury.ac.nz>
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
Lines: 15