SSTF to Ask [email protected] • 1 year agoHave you ever been in an argument where you absolutely objectively proved you were correct?message-square110fedilinkarrow-up1110
arrow-up1110message-squareHave you ever been in an argument where you absolutely objectively proved you were correct?SSTF to Ask [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square110fedilink
minus-squareToes♀linkfedilink5•1 year agoMany moons ago I was in a very heated argument that you could write a fully functional program in notepad. I was trying to explain what COM files were, they just didn’t understand enough about it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoThat seems like an odd thing to argue against. Did they mean that it wasn’t possible? Or wasn’t a good idea? Or was this before scripting languages and the point was you needed a compiler? So many questions
minus-squareThe Stoned Hackerlinkfedilink2•1 year agoI mean, in any instance if you can write code with ed, i don’t know why you couldn’t with notepad.
minus-squareToes♀linkfedilink3•1 year agoYeah to clarify their point they didn’t believe me that it was possible to write executable code outside of an ordinary scripting language.
Many moons ago I was in a very heated argument that you could write a fully functional program in notepad.
I was trying to explain what COM files were, they just didn’t understand enough about it.
That seems like an odd thing to argue against. Did they mean that it wasn’t possible? Or wasn’t a good idea? Or was this before scripting languages and the point was you needed a compiler? So many questions
I mean, in any instance if you can write code with ed, i don’t know why you couldn’t with notepad.
Yeah to clarify their point they didn’t believe me that it was possible to write executable code outside of an ordinary scripting language.