If nothing else, the original was generous with catchphrases. I had a friend in high school who often used the salutation "Greetings, programs!" when walking into a group. It keeps attracting shoutouts from other shows and movies… for example, the "hybrids" in the new "Battlestar Galactica" always ended their prattling with "End of Line".
I was already into programming when TRON came out, so I "got" the idea of programs resembling their creators, and kept wondering over the years what that meant for the modern era when code is seldom written by a single person. Actually, that gets to one of the really dated concepts of the original: the programs also refer to their "user", who is usually the person who wrote them too (e.g., Alan wrote Tron, and Tron refers to Alan as "his User"). That seemed typical of a really early academic era, when researchers would write programs to solve their own problems, as opposed to programs performing more general tasks that would be useful to others. --Chris On Dec 20, 1:24 pm, Chess <[email protected]> wrote: > Just curious if any other devs on the group had a push in the > computing direction thanks to the original TRON movie. I was already > very interested in computers. I remember looking at HeathKit computers > and drooling over them. > > When I saw the original TRON movie it was like taking a fireworks > factory and dropping it into an active volcano, which was then shoved > inside a nuclear reactor. I was in AWE of what I saw the whole concept > and the look of it! I couldn't wait to write my own programs that did > things (like play random sounds and change the color of the screen! > lol). > > Legacy was great, and can't wait to see it a few more times! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
