EJ Padero dot Com: Volume 2 » amuck http://ejpadero.com/vol2 Still increasing my exposure since 1997 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:10:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 C++ Should Have Been Called “B” http://ejpadero.com/vol2/2009/11/17/c-should-have-been-called-b/ http://ejpadero.com/vol2/2009/11/17/c-should-have-been-called-b/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:17:30 +0000 E.J. http://ejpadero.com/vol2/?p=613 I haven’t done any C++ programming in ages. Yet, here I am on the ‘puter in the wee hours of the night. I work on it. I also unwind on it (usually). Sometimes I itch for my next fix to sit at it to do something, anything. Other times I just want to break free from it and not have to touch its peripherals again.

In reference to my mother’s elder cousins’ old (text)books of Dick and Jane I used to find on our bookshelves while growing up,

See Spot run!
Run Spot run!
Why is Spot running?
Did he spot something?

In the computing/information age, the above may translate (transpose?) to something similar to the following;

  • C program run! C program crash! C programmer (Q)uit!
  • C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit.
  • C program run. C program crash. C programmer swear! C programmer quit!
  • C program run. C program crash. C programmer cry?
  • C program run. C program crash. C programmer throw up.
  • C program run… Run, program, run… PLEASE…

All of which, can be graphically summed up below:

Keyboard Rampage

One does not have to be programming in C language to appreciate the animation.

“Have a carrot,” said the mother bunny.

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