February 10th, 2005

climbing

Another conversation in class today.

The instructor writes on the whiteboard:
if ( foo ) {
	printf(“woo\n”);
	baz = foo + 5;
	/* Another irrelevant line of code went here. */
}
The Instructor: Here is some example C code.
The Douchebag: foo is a boolean. That line of code would not work.

I wanted to say, “please shut the fuck up before I beat you with my shoe.” Instead, I turned...

quadhome: Please learn C.
climbing

Slant.

I am a fan of Greg Bear. My secondary online nickname is titled after his book Slant.

An extremely boring excerpt from Slant is available.

(I'm sorry to note my primary online nickname, Quad, is simply a youthful derivation from the concept of binary numbers.)