• sushibowl@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    Fun quote from an interview with Chris Sawyer:

    Latterly the machine code came back to haunt us when the decision was made to re-launch the original game on mobile platforms as RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic a few years ago, and it took several years and a small team of programmers to re-write the entire game in C++. It actually took a lot longer to re-write the game in C++ than it took me to write the original machine code version 20 years earlier.

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        2 months ago

        #include <iostream> // because writing to the console is not included by default.
        int main()
        {
        std::cout << "C++ is simple and fun ... you cretin\n";
        return 0;
        }

        I had a machine language course in uni, parallel with a C++ course. Not a fun semester to be my wife, or a relative of any of my classmates. Best case our brains were in C++ mode, worst case you needed an assembler to understand us.

        And yes I know my code format will piss people off, I don’t care, it’s the way I write when other less informed people don’t force me to conform to their BS “Teh oPeNiNg bracket shouwd bwee on teh sam line ass teh declawation

        Edit: added a \n for the sake of pedantry :)