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1. Andrew (R.S Admin) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Apr-2021 13:39:21 CEST Andrew (R.S Admin)

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   I've been doing a lot more real programming than normal at work. I've started learning Go, and I've been writing a fair amount of Python and editing some node.

   This is fine. That's my job.

   But uhh.

   Damn, I guess this is going to be a longer thread because I'm already hitting character limits.

   • Andrew (R.S Admin) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Apr-2021 13:39:21 CEST Andrew (R.S Admin)

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     Doing real programming at work has made me want to work on personal programming projects that I've abandoned or ignored because I'm a weak engineer.

     (I should explain! I have a hard time holding a language's syntax in my head, even if I'm using it every day, I use it with a reference manual open! I dunno why I'm like that. The upshot is that I code very slowly, but I edit pretty quickly.

     I can help other folks figure out what's wrong with their code better than I can write mine.)

   • Andrew (R.S Admin) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Apr-2021 13:39:22 CEST Andrew (R.S Admin)

     Alright. I'm gonna do some ridiculous stuff today.

     One of the ridiculous things I'm going to do is to get some programs I wrote in commodore BASIC as a child (and which I only have today as *screenshots* of the program listing from an emulator) to run on modern linux.

     I could port them from BASIC to a modern language, I could install an emulator for the commodore.

     I think what I'm going to do, though, is install a BASIC compiler.

     I'm specifically looking at QB64.

     (Small thread?)