>>> That last sentence is a bit Spanish (8-)# >> It is very strange. Swear that I am Spanish. ;) > I am glad you saw the joke. It is hard translating literally into > another language - it rarely works. > I love the French restaurant who 'helpfully' translated 'Mousse > chocolat' into "Chocolate foam". > In England we use the French word.
Nobody expects the /Spanish/ Inquisition ;) >> What was the line limit? What would be an acceptable number? > I forget exactly - maybe 60 only. > Mind you the winner took full advantage of very very long DATA > statements, so was bending the rules. > He had no machine code though I think. He just used these data > statements to feed values into recursive turtle graphics commands - > very cunning. > Ah I remember - Dragon was the winner and the download (dragon_zip) is > available in files area #1 on my BBS (+44 1442 828255). > It took for ever to draw on an unexpanded QL - which most were then. > .... and I see it was a QL User competition. > > Maybe a better way is to limit the code size, and require the > assembler is entirely within the basic program, using data statements. > These could be POKEd into the RESPR space. This would then limit what > machine code programmers could get up to. > > I just feel that if you don't impose any code size limits, you are > making it too easy. Thanks for these clarifications. I see very positive limit to 60 lines, and for this competition of screens is not allowed machine code. I will communicate this to Radastan. Compete it! Regards, Javier Guerra (badaman) http://sinclairql.es _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
