From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-05-28T19:30:15+09:00
Subject: Re: ASCII art 2.0 (was [QUIZ] Dungeon Generation (#80))

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 19:05 +0900, Benjohn Barnes wrote:

> ASCII does this wonderfully. You can't get much easier than "puts  
> ':)'". BBC BASIC did it too with: "MOVE 100,100; DRAW 200,100". Logo  
> also did it well with "fd 100".

Ouch. My earliest programming experiences were with basic and logo on
the Amstrad CPC, and later the Spectrum. They did this kind of thing and
I have to say, in the twenty years since then, I've never yearned to do
it again :) It's all well and good until you have a thousand lines (or
more) of 'move here, draw this, select this pen, move here...' and find
an errant green pixel in the middle of the screen...

Hmm, this may be why I still have a strong aversion to all forms of
graphical programming (including GUI)...

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk