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@icedquinn Pascal was before my time (Born 1998, started programming around 2011). I do avoid mixing declarations and actual code. That's common practice. I just don't like the verbosity of BASIC. That's probably because it actually preceded C by almost a decade.

@lanodan Well this is my ideal society. People voluntarily choosing what political or economical system to live by (Panarchism). And anarcho-capitalism with it's view on property and contract law is the way to achieve that.

@icedquinn Still I don't like how you have to write:

Dim x As Integer;

Instead of:

int x;

Or writing "Then" after if statements or using "End If", "End While", "End Sub" instead of closing braces. I think modern scripting languages got it right by using a C-like syntax.

Though I think FreeBASIC is still interesting given that it has a built-in graphics library which can make it ideal for hobbyist game development.

@lanodan You're free to start communes under anarcho-capitalism if you don't like it.

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@icedquinn Jabascript is the BASIC of our time. More power more horror.

@lanodan Imagine seeing :ancap: and not being like "eww, symbol of an horrible dictature" and instead being like "oh, I love this symbol".

@icedquinn Too bad the modern dialects of BASIC are way too verbose for my liking. Just look at these FreeBASIC examples on Wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBASI

Who the fuck capitalizes statements?

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when Djikstra said people who learned BASIC were unsalvageable, what he should have said is people who are webdevs.

BASIC programmers never created these levels of horror.
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There's enough unvaxxed nurses to start their own thing. It's anyone building that yet?

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Linus Torvalds's original Linux announcement was all like "this isn't a big professional project, it's a smol bean hobby kernel" and look where that got him.

The conclusion is that when you announce your projects you should make grandiose claims about them to avoid the same fate.
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Reminder to stop watching those “expert reacts to piece of media” vids that are made every 5 seconds they are all not worth watching. Except maybe that one dude who reacts to guns in shooters and shows the REAL gun thats alright.
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@thor

90% of adults in Israel are vaccinated, and the delta variant is still blowing up. Herd immunity isn't happening.
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dunking on discord culture by using irc for your patreon game

@lanodan @dubh @shebang @p @emilis @dielan @lebronjames75 Looking back on it. I always learned new programming languages this way.

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