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Comment What's to love... (Score 1) 793

by Gugliandalf on Monday July 02, 2012 @06:29PM (#40522121) Attached to: What's To Love About C?

C has the raw power of assembler and can have the sleek elegance of Pascal. Period. What else can you possibly wish from a procedural language? And, yes. I learned assembler (Z80, on Sinclairs) before I learned C. Nowadays, I often teach programming languages, and strongly believe that C (and maybe a little assembler) should be a mandatory learning step under each programmer's belt. I prefer coding in OO langs,but when you need to get your hands dirty, C. Period. :)

Comment ritchie.c (Score 1) 725

by Gugliandalf on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @05:04PM (#37754740) Attached to: Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away

#include void main ( ) { printf("Goodbye World \n"); }

Comment Leonardo (Score 1) 1613

by Gugliandalf on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @08:38PM (#37620288) Attached to: Steve Jobs Dead At 56

"More than one pundit [...] called him a modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci." Quite agree.

Comment it wise to hold majority opinion so high that it s (Score 1) 848

by Gugliandalf on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @10:50AM (#36435902) Attached to: Italy Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power

What nuclear fission power has to do with progress?

Interactive Text Adventures Come To the Kindle 84

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 09, 2010 @02:52AM from the you-are-likely-to-eat-some-glue dept.

dotarray writes with news that Amazon's Kindle will now play text-based adventure games, such as Zork. From the article: "... And it makes a ridiculous amount of sense: text is gorgeous and easily-readable on the e-ink screens, the lack of color isn’t a problem, and – let’s face it – the sort of people who are likely to buy an e-reader are exactly the sort of people who are likely to love vintage games. ... The developers have also integrated a save-game feature so you can pick up where you left off, using Amazon’s Whispernet feature – and promise that they are looking to put more modern Z-machine games into the system, too. (Squee!) Unfortunately, it’s not perfect. The Zork family of games are notoriously frustrating (even when you’re not eaten by a Grue), and the Kindle’s text entry system doesn’t help with that, especially when entering numbers. A full keyboard would make things more fluid, but – really – if you want that, why not just play on your PC?"

Portal 2 Gets Release Date 110

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday August 19, 2010 @01:58AM from the it's-been-a-long-time dept.

AndrewGOO9 writes "After what has seemed like an eternity since Valve initially announced a sequel to their lauded puzzle title Portal, a release date has finally been attached to the game. Originally slated to be released before the end of the year in time for the holidays, Valve instead opted to delay the game, citing reasons such as, 'making games is hard' as well as continuing their tradition of releasing games when they're finished as opposed to rushing them out the door. Either way, mark your calendars for February 9th, 2011, and in the meantime, brush up on thinking with portals." There's some new gameplay footage available, and Valve announced that Stephen Merchant will be lending his voice to the game.

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