to the home of FlushedSector. FlushedSector, you ask, who the h... has a name like that? Well, actually it isn't my real name, but when I program, and I quite like that, it has happened that I kinda like flushed a few sectors down the drain (which resulted in the fact that I had to learn enough about the FATFS and boot-processes on PC's to fix it).
And as I said, I like programming, and I stumpled over a new promising language called the SMURF programming language. This is not the only new language out there that you probably never heard about - what about C+-, a variant of C++.
But I'm not restricted to only non-existing languages, I like programming and learned a few languages along the way, starting out with good old BASIC (this was before QBasic, where line-numbers was everything). I had to move on to a compiler, since I wanted to create .exe files for my programs and I wanted more speed! (BASIC is interpreted, even VB6!). At first I took a peek at C, but it seemed very difficult, so I learned Pascal (Borland style) instead. I still do Pascal, only in the Delphi variation. Later on, I went back to C again, since it is quite hyped up (Unix is written in C), and when you say C, you say C++. But one still was not satisfied with the speed, so I tried out Intel assembly, and it worked (at least for simple sub-routines). Then, out here, where the nerds reign, I took 49104 - Java Programming, and Java turned out to be an excellent language.
Some of the source I created, I have released for you to download.
The other day I sat peeking around in some old text files, and I found a few somewhat entertaining texts - perhaps you would like them:
50 fun things to do on a final that does not matter
Some computer humour
How the universe most certainly was made
...and now for something completely different...
Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers, and he counted to ten. He was desperately convinced, that one day sentient lifeforms would forget how to do this.
- Douglas Adams, The Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy, chpt. 19, pg.101
"But I like inconveniences." [of othello, violence and passion]
"We don't" said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably."
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond [the Controller], "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right, then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to mention the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be busy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind."
There was a long silence
"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.
Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. "You're welcome," he said.
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, end of chapter 17.
"Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard.
The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, beg. of chpt. 18.
[Concerning his habit of travelling by tube]
Travel by tube and you see nothing but the works of man - iron riveted into geometrical forms, straight lines of concrete, patterned expanses of tiles. All is human and the product of friendly and comprehensible minds. All philosophies and all religions - what are they but spiritual Tubes bored through the universe! Through these narrow tunnels, where all is recognizably human, one travels comfortable and secure, contriving to forget, that all round and below and above them stretches the blind mass of earth, endless and unexplored."
[said Mr. Scogan - believer of the rational society.]
- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, end of chpt. 23 (p. 134).
Ian Malcolm: Oh no. We're in the hands of engineers!
- Jurassic Park
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice, there is.
- The Great American Philosopher Yogi Berra
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