OpenEuphoria

Re: Age?

• Posted by Tom Eklöf <darkspace at SUNPOINT.NET> Aug 11, 2000
• 671 views

I seem to have the same problem as someone else on this list (name happil=
y forgotten by now,) I just can't seem to improve my skills when it comes=
 to programming. I reach a certain point and from there on my brain refus=
es to accept any new ideas ;)
I'm 19, and I've been dabbling with different programming languages for 6=
 years now and haven't managed to produce anything remotely useful. I've =
done Q&GW-BASIC, Euphoria, Perl, Pascal, INTERCAL, brainf*ck, Befunge, Py=
thon, SMALLTALK-80 (and downloaded a Squeak distro today) and currently t=
rying to learn C++ with very little success (can't grasp OO.) Most of my =
problems seem to originate from a very bad habit: nasty looking, messy co=
de and minimal commenting. Took me a long time to figure out what I wante=
d to do when I wrote
$SUBTEMP =3D~ s/\s*?(.*?)\[/$1\[/g;
$SUBTEMP =3D~ s/$_[1]\[(.*?)\]\!/$1/i;
two years back, now that I'm not actively coding in Perl. Regexps are a p=
ain, I tells 'ya :)
using variable names like "frob" and "twid" doesn't help either.


Oh, and I've done another esoteric "fungeoid" called "Beor."
Basically a 2D, LIFO-stack based language, but with some interesting devi=
ations. I put together a PDF manual for it, but it amounts to about 80kb =
and I was wondering if I'd be drawn and quartered for posting it here? An=
y comments?
I'll probably post the source to the interpreter and some example program=
s ("99 bottles of beer on the wall" and whatnot) later on.


--Tom "Hates 7-bit ASCII" Ekl=F6f


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