Is there a programming language that is combination of Python andBasic?

Mensanator mensanator at aol.com
Sun Apr 19 12:45:22 EDT 2009


On Apr 19, 10:12�am, Scott David Daniels <Scott.Dani... at Acm.Org>
wrote:
> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> > "Mensanator" <mens... at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > 8< ---------- description of bugs in spaghetti ---------------
>
> > Looks like that design really needed sorting out!
>
> >> A programmer once said to me "Why should I run it, I know
> >> how it works, I wrote it."
>
> > Are you serious?
> > In my opinion, anybody who says this is not a programmer,
> > but merely an arrogant idiot with a lot of misplaced self-
> > confidence - somewhat like a permanent force corporal.
>
> >> My reply: "You only THINK you know how it works. _I_, on
> >> the other hand, ACTUALLY know how it works because I've
> >> run it."
>
> > How did you manage to keep your reply so meek?
> > You must be a really well brought up person.
> > :-)
>
> Possibly because the proper reply was probably, "You only THINK
> you know how it works. _I_, on the other hand, know how it behaves,
> even if I don't know how it was supposed to work."

Probably more accurate as his .exe file crashed
immediately when executed. That's what lead me to
supect he never ran it.

>
> --Scott David Daniels
> Scott.Dani... at Acm.Org



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