[text]

[theuserabides]

Birkin, here you go:

You'll need a C compiler.

[Though the post is addressed to Birkin, it's not locked and the file is available for anyone to download. It's small, only a few hundred bytes, and when compiled...it's a solitaire program. Yes, the card game. Yes, the card game you get free with Windows.

The code's very elegant, though.]

Comments

[notahandbag]

Awesome! You're the greatest!

...What's a C compiler?

[theuserabides]

[:|]

It converts the code into a lower-level language the computer can understand. I can't write in assembly if I don't know your processor architecture.

[notahandbag]

...What?

I'm really bad at computers...

[theuserabides]

[:|]

Is there anyone on your end you can get to help you?

[notahandbag]

Uh, maybe Stein would know what you're talking about...?

Ooh! Wait, is the Cwhatever like the C-drive? Like C: that thing?

[theuserabides]

[Fortunately for Flynn's composure, he figured out how to be patient years ago.]

No, it's got nothing to do with that. C is a high-level programming language. Your computer needs an intermediary step before it can understand the instructions, hence the compiler.

[notahandbag]

Ah, so it's like tRNA. Got it.

...And how do I get some of this computer tRNA?

[theuserabides]

[Flynn's last biology class was in high school.]

Uh. Sure.

You ask someone who knows more about computers than you do to run the compiler for you. Or you get me a complete spec of the processor architecture of your computer and I implement a compiler for you.

[notahandbag]

Considering I don't know most of those words you used after "Or", I think I'll go and hunt down someone who knows what they're talking about with this.

[theuserabides]

That...may be for the best.