Don't put BASIC code in your emails

by exupero • 15 years ago

101 28 15 years ago

semisight• 15 years ago

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...

ElbertF• 15 years ago

Nostalgia? It's a language that introduced many of us to programming.

Edit: https://plus.google.com/108914556664474359662/posts/K1xhEEtk...

azelfrath• 15 years ago

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.

cbs• 15 years ago

You're language snobbing a joke? Really?

But to answer your question, basic is like a fart joke, everyone gets it.

ThaddeusQuay24• 15 years ago

BASIC isn't a joke. I use BaCon for a lot of server stuff, usually as a backend to a website, and as an extension to Bash.

http://basic-converter.org

redthrowaway4• 15 years ago

++++++++++[>+++++++++>+++++++++++>++++>++++++++++<<<<-]>-.>+.++++++.>-.<---.>>+.<-------.>++++++++.----.<<+..>>.+++++.-------.<.<+.>>+.---.<.<----.-.>>++++.<<-.++++++.>++++++++++++++.<<<.

function_seven• 15 years ago

Bravo. You write that by hand? Because I totally interpreted with pencil and paper. Didn't use this http://pinecodes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/brainfuck.ht..., no sir.

feral• 15 years ago

> 10 Subject == getConfig(Email[Subject])

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.

Osiris• 15 years ago

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.

einhverfr• 15 years ago

Thinking the joke could be much more elegantly written in Perl, sed, or LISP

andrewflnr• 15 years ago

There was one in LISP, didn't you see that one? ;)

mahmud• 15 years ago

  (apply #'max (mapcar #'age-of (list-all-recipients)))
     ==> 21

thought_alarm2• 15 years ago

10 GOTO Subject? For Pete's sake!

That's the problem with this whole "structured programming" fad: nobody knows how to write honest, plain old spaghetti-code anymore.

As for me, I enjoy throwing a goto or two into my Obj-C and Java code every once and awhile. It's perfectly legit.

ThaddeusQuay24• 15 years ago

The world of programming started to fall apart as soon as lowercase was allowed in code.

KeithMajhor3• 15 years ago

Honest question. Is case (in)?sensitivity something people actually care about?

stuff4ben• 15 years ago

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.

jluan• 15 years ago

Heh, looks like it's a Microsoft email thread -- the Ship-It reference suggests so.

brokentone• 15 years ago

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...

Don't put BASIC code in your emails

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