Date: 11:50 am Sat Sep 30, 1995 Number : 33 of 201 From: Anthrax Base : BOMB_Net - Programming To : Bellicose Subj: Re: hmm
A> Well, it's not like your initials are in a big neon sign over your alias or A> anything :) But I know who you are now... When did you make the jump into A> C/C++? Now do you realize where all that power I had last year came from? :) A> Aah, I remember Alg and Geo.. I had fun in that one.. were you there the A> day I went, "Aaron, I just proved that C = 1!!"? :) B> B> Yeah, I made the jump part way into C/C++ that year but went headlong in B> it this summer... now I am learning Pascal... like 5 steps forward 5 steps B> back!!... Yeah I remember that... laughed my ass off at it. B> Heh... Yeah, I started learning C/C++ way back about halfway through gr.10, when I realised, "Fuck, Turing sucks!" :) Also I've found that a modem was THE best tool for learning programming. I got HelpPc over the modem, which is awesome for hardware stuff, and just being able to find people who know more than you and ask them questions.. Ugh, then there's Pascal :)
A> Yeah, I heard they have awesome machines there.. (You're at UofW, right?) Ha A> you run into any of the Silicon Graphics Machines yet? Oh, have they actuall A> set you up with a company yet, and if so how much $$$ do you make? :) B> B> I don't work for a company I work for a professor doing research which i B> actually just programming stuff. I haven't used an SG machine yet, they hav B> me working on a UNIX Sun Station. B> Hey neat, what's that like? Is UNIX any good? (I'm a pro at DOS but I don't really know any other OS's...)