• Toes♀
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    58 months ago

    Many moons ago I was in a very heated argument that you could write a fully functional program in notepad.

    I was trying to explain what COM files were, they just didn’t understand enough about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      That seems like an odd thing to argue against. Did they mean that it wasn’t possible? Or wasn’t a good idea? Or was this before scripting languages and the point was you needed a compiler? So many questions

      • Toes♀
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        38 months ago

        Yeah to clarify their point they didn’t believe me that it was possible to write executable code outside of an ordinary scripting language.

      • The Stoned Hacker
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        28 months ago

        I mean, in any instance if you can write code with ed, i don’t know why you couldn’t with notepad.