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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:11 pm
by Moriarty
Sure there is, the really helluva tough guys can program with a magnetic pin on a 5 1/4-inch floppydisk while wearing a blindfold.
And have to walk up hill too and from work with the disks on their back? Yea those were the days
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:08 am
by Skaro
Moriarty wrote:Sure there is, the really helluva tough guys can program with a magnetic pin on a 5 1/4-inch floppydisk while wearing a blindfold.
And have to walk up hill too and from work with the disks on their back? Yea those were the days
Hell yeah!
Interesting idea
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:47 pm
by guiguibaah
That would be an interesting idea...
A limited Edition Freeorion 1.0, released on punchcards.
I wonder what the shipping charges would be like...
Re: Interesting idea
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:35 pm
by Yoghurt
guiguibaah wrote:I wonder what the shipping charges would be like...
Do you mean for the punch-cards or for the mainframe that would be required?
Re: Interesting idea
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:40 pm
by Geoff the Medio
Yoghurt wrote:guiguibaah wrote:I wonder what the shipping charges would be like...
Do you mean for the punch-cards or for the mainframe that would be required?
You don't need a mainframe yourself. You just send each turn's orders by mail and get your results back a week later.
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:51 pm
by Yoghurt
Of course, to make matters easier for the person entering the results, sending the moves on punch-cards is highly recommended.
BTW: 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)
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:32 pm
by Moriarty
You don't need a mainframe yourself. You just send each turn's orders by mail and get your results back a week later.
I'm sorry but that would just suck from a UI front.
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.
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)
On a more serious note, I think a few nice little easter eggs like this might be interesting. They add character to the game.
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:18 am
by JosEPh
GaHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Cobol and Punch cards!
The ONLY College class I ever Failed!!
I can still remember the Prof's Name too, 28 years later! Grrrrrr!!!
It ended my carrer path in computers. So I became a Cable TV Network Maint. Tech and computers are coming back to haunt me.
JosEPh
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:42 am
by Daveybaby
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:18 am
by Sapphire Wyvern
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:19 pm
by Zanzibar
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?
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:56 pm
by Skaro
Zanzibar 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?
By that time computers will program themselves......to kill us
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:23 pm
by Yoghurt
Zanzibar 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?
I'd think something along the lines of Haskell
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:04 pm
by Danakin
Or MSCode.... eww *shudders*
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:23 am
by Alberjohns
Yoghurt wrote:Zanzibar 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?
I'd think something along the lines of Haskell
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."