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Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)

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Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)
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Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)
November 27, 2009 at 10:18 am
Hi everyone. I'm a lifelong atheist - and eight years of Sunday School did nothing to change that.

My three favourite pastimes are 1950's rockabilly music, computer programming (in BASIC) and surfing the net.

I'm looking forward to joining in some of the discussions here...
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RE: Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)
November 27, 2009 at 10:20 am
Hi Joe, welcome to the forums.
Best regards,
Leo van Miert
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RE: Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)
November 27, 2009 at 10:21 am
Welcome along.

I used to programme in BASIC. Nothing wrong with that. My favourite was GFA BASIC on the Amiga which I used when I was a shareware author, something that I plan to resurrect in the new year, but this time with Delphi/Pascal.

Anyway, I'm wittering. Welcome once again Smile
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RE: Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)
November 27, 2009 at 11:15 am
Welcome to the forums Joe.

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RE: Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)
November 27, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Hey Joe!

Yeah same here with sunday school.
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RE: Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)
November 27, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Welcome Joe, to the forums!
Freedom is the ability to march to the beat of a different drummer without fear of retribution. Secularone

Ignorance is bliss but understanding is wonderful. Atheist forums.org
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RE: Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)
November 27, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Welcome. Good to see that sunday school also had no effect on you. Big Grin

And BASIC sucks balls. Procedural programming at its worst with even worse garbage collection and shoddier coding practices. An in the words of one of my CS heroes:
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. " -- Edsger Dijkstra
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RE: Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)
November 27, 2009 at 9:53 pm
(November 27, 2009 at 9:11 pm)Synackaon Wrote: Welcome. Good to see that sunday school also had no effect on you. Big Grin

And BASIC sucks balls. Procedural programming at its worst with even worse garbage collection and shoddier coding practices. An in the words of one of my CS heroes:
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. " -- Edsger Dijkstra
Can't argue with that...I deliberately mentioned BASIC so that people wouldn't confuse me with a "real" programmer.

The thing is, I learnt BASIC on a Commodore 64 in the mid-1980's, then I used QBasic for about ten years - and then it was too late. Now I am so comfortable with the language that I will never give it up. Don't have to really...there's never been a program I've had to put on the shelf because I couldn't find the code to complete it.
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RE: Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)
November 29, 2009 at 1:12 am
Welcome Joe Bloe Smile I hope you find surfing this forum to be as (or more) interesting than surfing the web Smile
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: Joe Bloe (Adelaide, South Australia)
November 29, 2009 at 4:28 am
Welcome Joe!
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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