> Boast? Usually, I see it as a mark of sad geekiness :) I'm up to 20 years in IT myself ... if you count writing a flat-file database (in Locomotive BASIC on an Amstrad CPC 6128) for my primary school at the age of 10 ;-).
I still remember going home thinking "why the _hell_ isn't this working?" It turned out to be the way Locomotive BASIC handled string variables as arguments to system calls. This: OPEN filename$, 9 PRINT #9, "Hello world!" CLOSE #9 ... didn't work, but: OPEN "" + filename$, 9 ... did (I'm pretty sure that isn't the _exact_ syntax, it's been 20 years). I pondered that all the way home, and then tried it on my CPC 464 that evening. I didn't figure it out, but I did stumble on the correct behaviour by trial & error, & went in the next morning & fixed the bug. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
