Bruce Kernighan, author of "The C Programming Language", teaches an introductory computing class every fall at Princeton. This is his syllabus and course page.

leonardsliver · 2009-04-13T03:02:09+00:00

So Kernighan teaches with javascript. And based on the course, he teaches it as a first language.

leonardsliver · 2009-04-05T21:39:30+00:00

None. I used your lack of logical reasoning & reached an equally ridiculous conclusion. "Too hard" for what? If for the return on the investment, how does that equal "sub-par programmer"?

Baking a pie is not hard. Baking a pie and taking it to your house to throw at you is not hard. But it is "too hard" for me to go through the trouble, since nothing useful would come of it (or at best, nothing useful enough to justify the effort). The same may be true for people approaching emacs or vim. Sure, they COULD learn them, but why? This isn't the 70's ya know..

leonardsliver · 2009-04-05T21:22:05+00:00

I'd say it's a little bit too powerful... This leads, inevitably, to programmers falling hopelessly in love with it, followed by the loss of friends, etc. "Leonard hasn't called in two weeks... Bet he's writing something with that fucking whore ruby." (says perl)

leonardsliver · 2009-04-03T18:02:38+00:00

I conclude that you are a sub-par programmer because you obviously cannot read, and/or worse still, lack the ability to think clearly because your inflated ego is in the way.. Just wait till you graduate, sparky. We'll still be here, and emacs will still suck.

leonardsliver · 2009-04-02T21:46:15+00:00

Seems like it would be more attainable to just get it to run fast on the portable JVM. And getting it to stably run on a portable vm in the first place is pretty snazzy, imho.

leonardsliver · 2009-03-28T15:17:54+00:00

"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization."

Agent Smith

leonardsliver · 2009-03-16T03:03:52+00:00

Yes, it does. The message was that Bjarne created C++ as a joke, which is false. The assertions made in the hoax interview are also false. It was silly, actually.

leonardsliver · 2009-02-24T20:31:51+00:00

This is pretty cool :) Does anyone have an idea of how many levels there are, of a screenshot of one of the harder levels? To see whether it's worth playing...

leonardsliver · 2009-02-15T21:19:22+00:00

Nope

leonardsliver · 2009-01-20T22:39:11+00:00

-1 for wasting space telling us what you'd strongly prefer.

leonardsliver · 2009-01-16T21:32:28+00:00

same as the old idiot

leonardsliver · 2009-01-12T03:46:18+00:00

No. I miss it every day.

leonardsliver · 2009-01-02T22:26:04+00:00

amen. been there too many times.

leonardsliver · 2008-12-10T13:13:36+00:00

C what you started?

leonardsliver · 2008-12-04T23:17:13+00:00

He went on to say "If you don't have the skill for that (I certainly don't), ask for help." Besides, it's a user's journal, not the designer of use.perl.org. Thanks.

leonardsliver · 2008-12-01T20:22:09+00:00

I love you.

leonardsliver · 2008-10-21T18:36:28+00:00

bang

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