FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for July 19, 2012
July 18, 2012
July 20, 2012
Transcript:
Peter: What are you doing? Jason: Brushing up on my programing skills. Peter: In what computer language? Jason: None of your business. Peter: Ha! I knew it! Jason's a "C" student... Jason's a "C" student... Jason: I really wish they'd name this stuff better.
x_Tech over 12 years ago
Jason, you should check out Groovy or PHP.You’d love what PHP stands for.PHP = PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
porkerroy over 12 years ago
Programming is spelled with “too peas” (:@P
fhhuber over 12 years ago
Call it “Micro Emacs” (an early version of C)
kevindix over 12 years ago
Emacs is an editor, not a programming language, and was never a version of C. The predecessor of C was BCPL.
dflak over 12 years ago
I liked C. It allowed you to do anything you wanted. Want to write all zeros or all ones over the disk, go ahead.
Safety nets are for wimps.
Better still write a program by putting zeros and ones in specific memory locations. Code that writes code. Now that’s geeky.Fan o’ Lio. over 12 years ago
I never got beyond Basic.
legaleagle48 over 12 years ago
Why does this whole conversation suddenly make me feel downright archaic?
The Life I Draw Upon over 12 years ago
OOPs.
DerkinsVanPelt218 over 12 years ago
Maybe he should try BASIC or COBOL, but I get the feeling Peter would still mock him.
QuietStorm27 over 12 years ago
Peter just wants some company.
K M over 12 years ago
Coulda been worse: Coulda been D-flat!