OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!!! (read: ali geeks out like a total loser.)
okay, a little backstory. when i was in my senior year of high school, i had pretty much finished all the required courses to graduate. i mean, i still had to take a full year's worth of classes, but the way my high school's requirements were set up, the only subjects you actually had to take four years of to graduate were (i think) english and gym. so i wasn't taking band anymore, and i decided not to take a social studies/history class, and gym was only a three-block class (out of seven), and i didn't *have* to take any math at all, so i could've had only like, three classes all year, and still graduated. but i loved my math, so i took multi-variable calc, and ap comp sci (which was considered math at my school). and in ap comp sci, with wacky mr. lucas, we learned pascal -- turbo pascal, to be exact. turbo pascal was less of a completely different language (it was pascal, with a few minor alterations) and more of a piece of software that made working in pascal easy as pie.
(on a complete and utter tangent, i just had a revelation as to why it's so difficult for the developers at work to work on projects that other people started in .NET. it's because .NET isn't ONE single, constant language! .....and now i feel like jay in clerks ii. "like, did you know jesus was a jew?" "yeah...." yeah. okay. anyway.)
turbo pascal like, pwned. seriously. it was awesome. and when i decided in college i wanted to keep playing with programming, even after my disasterous c++ class -- linds, was it c++, or just c? i totally can't remember suddenly -- i tried looking for turbo pascal to download. and it wasn't available (because at the time, i wasn't open to the possibility of cracked software, and it wasn't a free program).
WELL. imagine my surprise -- and alright, i'll admit it, glee! -- when i open up my gmail a short time ago and see the following slashdot headline: Borland Announces the Return of the Turbo Products, with Video. now, it does not appear that they are bringing back good ol' turbo pascal. BUT. i can't think of a better environment to use to teach myself c++ or even c#. fuck, maybe i'll geek out totally and teach myself delphi. i mean, i can't think of a more useless way to get myself back into geekdom. :p
anyway. that's my babbling for the night. lataz!!!!
mwah!
~a
ps. those of you who are geeks like me and interested in the new borland turbo programs? turboexplorer.com, y'all.
(on a complete and utter tangent, i just had a revelation as to why it's so difficult for the developers at work to work on projects that other people started in .NET. it's because .NET isn't ONE single, constant language! .....and now i feel like jay in clerks ii. "like, did you know jesus was a jew?" "yeah...." yeah. okay. anyway.)
turbo pascal like, pwned. seriously. it was awesome. and when i decided in college i wanted to keep playing with programming, even after my disasterous c++ class -- linds, was it c++, or just c? i totally can't remember suddenly -- i tried looking for turbo pascal to download. and it wasn't available (because at the time, i wasn't open to the possibility of cracked software, and it wasn't a free program).
WELL. imagine my surprise -- and alright, i'll admit it, glee! -- when i open up my gmail a short time ago and see the following slashdot headline: Borland Announces the Return of the Turbo Products, with Video. now, it does not appear that they are bringing back good ol' turbo pascal. BUT. i can't think of a better environment to use to teach myself c++ or even c#. fuck, maybe i'll geek out totally and teach myself delphi. i mean, i can't think of a more useless way to get myself back into geekdom. :p
anyway. that's my babbling for the night. lataz!!!!
mwah!
~a
ps. those of you who are geeks like me and interested in the new borland turbo programs? turboexplorer.com, y'all.