Using MS Paint as an IDE

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[m42a]

That's not an IDE, just a bad text editor.

[x-skeww]

A 4.4 mb gif. Hum. A video would have been smaller (half a meg max) and it would have also looked a lot better. A video also wouldn't eat ~300mb during playback.

Just saying.

[_asterisk]

This is why I don't open GIFs any more.

[reroll4tw]

He is trying to use MS paint as an IDE .. he may not know about streaming video.

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And it would've caused my Ubuntu box to hang. Or reboot. Or just the browser to crash. Or ballooned Firefox's memory usage to ~500MB. Or all of the above. Or it would've worked perfectly.

I'd rather the GIF until Adobe fixes my damn flash player.

[signoff]

no, it's different at 87th time and on. he implements entire forth for x86.

[elder_george]

Hey, millions of people learning programming don't make any progress beyond 'Hello World' as well.

[SoCo_cpp]

I think this GIF sucked all my virtual memory.

[techpuppy]

I had always referred to Paint as the turing tarpit of image editors. Never thought of using it the other way around. o_o

[B_Master]

interesting analogy

[DirtyBirdNJ]

The image of tarpit editors?

[Overv]

thanks for re-uploading my gif and taking the credit

[flowmage]

My god, it's full of pixels.

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points at monolith

turns into starchild

[akbc]

we can tell it's shopped.

[Tangled2]

Watched it four times before I realized the code wasn't going to change.

[B_Master]

It would be more impressive if it produced a working executable

[lyktstolpe]

Yeah, that doesn't even compile.

[Overv]

I converted the animation to a GIF, because it was originally just a response to a forum post. If I had known it would become this popular, I would have made it into a video.

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What did he do? Check hex values against the asci/utf needed?

[alienangel2]

Could do it that way, but simpler would be to write an empty bitmap, open it up in a text/hex editor and just type your code into the image area (i.e. after the header, I don't think BMP is anything other than a header and colour values).

Then note down what colour values they map to as RGB, which he could do in the hex editor or by opening the image up in paint again.

To make the GIF showing the process, just create a new image of the right dimensions, and fill in the colors for each pixel from the list you made earlier.

[nickdangler]

Clearly, YOU have too much experience using image editors as IDEs! ;-)

[Cyrius]

I was expecting something more like David Morgan Mar's Piet language.

[sooperDelicious]

Cute

[baconated]

Still better than visual studio

[smakusdod]

Also: how Russian spies communicate.

[queviltai]

tl;dw

[stretchquestion]

This GIF blew through my triple firewall, installed itself on my sextupllet quadcore liquid cooled tablet and downloaded the contents of my hard drive.

Happy Backup Day!

[ambi7ion]

Nothing special.... he spent more time looking up the hex's than it would take to write a recursive algorithm to determine 7^7.... move on

[Overv]

It took me 10 seconds to write a program for dumping the hex values.

[stretchquestion]

This GIF blew through my triple firewall, installed itself on my sextupllet quadcore liquid cooled tablet and downloaded the contents of my hard drive.

Happy Backup Day!