And have to walk up hill too and from work with the disks on their back? Yea those were the daysSure there is, the really helluva tough guys can program with a magnetic pin on a 5 1/4-inch floppydisk while wearing a blindfold.
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Hell yeah!Moriarty wrote:And have to walk up hill too and from work with the disks on their back? Yea those were the daysSure there is, the really helluva tough guys can program with a magnetic pin on a 5 1/4-inch floppydisk while wearing a blindfold.
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Interesting idea
That would be an interesting idea...
A limited Edition Freeorion 1.0, released on punchcards.
I wonder what the shipping charges would be like...
A limited Edition Freeorion 1.0, released on punchcards.
I wonder what the shipping charges would be like...
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Re: Interesting idea
Do you mean for the punch-cards or for the mainframe that would be required?guiguibaah wrote:I wonder what the shipping charges would be like...
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Re: Interesting idea
You don't need a mainframe yourself. You just send each turn's orders by mail and get your results back a week later.Yoghurt wrote:Do you mean for the punch-cards or for the mainframe that would be required?guiguibaah wrote:I wonder what the shipping charges would be like...
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I'm sorry but that would just suck from a UI front.You don't need a mainframe yourself. You just send each turn's orders by mail and get your results back a week later.
No, what you'd have to do would be have a courier for each player to take the punch-cards to the MF. You've obviously never had UI training.
On a more serious note, I think a few nice little easter eggs like this might be interesting. They add character to the game.Do we have a technology "Punch cards" in FO's tech tree? If not, we should include it immediately. (Technologies like that could be available on April 1st, only)
Jeebus! COBOL. Very, very nasty stuff. And that's coming from someone who is currently coding in Ada95. Eeesh.
Personally, i'm of the opinion that FO should be recoded from scratch in INTERCAL, and anyone who disagrees is clearly a programming wimp.
Personally, i'm of the opinion that FO should be recoded from scratch in INTERCAL, and anyone who disagrees is clearly a programming wimp.
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I dunno, how about BIT for powerful C-style data handling, Haifu for mystical Eastern AIs and of course perfectly balanced code, Chef for the best-tasting code you'll ever see, ZOMBIE for shambling corpse action, Ook! the only OO (Orang-utan Oriented) language, Piet where the programs can double as texture files, and of course HQ9++ if you want concise code.
Not to mention the incredible lossless compression ratio opportunities presented by lenPEG and WPEG.
Not to mention the incredible lossless compression ratio opportunities presented by lenPEG and WPEG.
By that time computers will program themselves......to kill usZanzibar wrote:I wonder what will be the name of the default programming language (like assembly or binary is for current processors) once we switch over to quantum computers and qubits?
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Some people would suggest a version of lisp, such as scheme, or a varient thereof. Greenspun's Tenth Rule: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."Yoghurt wrote:I'd think something along the lines of HaskellZanzibar wrote:I wonder what will be the name of the default programming language (like assembly or binary is for current processors) once we switch over to quantum computers and qubits?