Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 28th Jul 2004 17:23 UTC
Most of us that work in the IT industry have been around for a long time. We started out in our parents basement writing code in some BASIC environment, ussually Commodore BASIC or QBASIC. Do you remember how thrilling it was? Your first program and it was something extremely basic but the point was it worked. Some of us got hooked right away and kept trying to solve problems and added more and more pushing the capabilities of whatever language we used. As we got older the environments progressed and the programming tools progressed and got more complicated.
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When I was twelve, I just pored over the (seemingly) endless lines of code for Nibbles and Gorillas on QBasic under DOS 5.0. I found where the number of initial lives is set and upped it up a bit
Ever since I jumped to C/C++, VB, touched on Java, and now I do PERL and PHP for my website.
That thrill is still with me, and clearly still with the author.
@Anonymous (IP: ---.sothfd01.mi.comcast.net)
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