Good vs. Evil

[duckfan77]

51 Debugging crash reports...

 

[triggerfinger12]

52 Learning to program...

 

[lenscas]

53

52 Learning to program...

You started to learn how to program? AWESOME!

 

[triggerfinger12]

54 More like I started to learn how to follow HTML format.

 

[duckfan77]

53 Started my first college CSCI class today. It was a joke today, as it assumes no prior knowledge

 

[GamerwithnoGame]

54.

53 Butts.

Yes indeed

 

[lenscas]

53 Started my first college CSCI class today. It was a joke today, as it assumes no prior knowledge

55 can't be much worse than solving things like

{x:=10}[x:=5]

or, of course

{x:={a1:=10,a2:=5},y:=6}[x][a1:=5][a1]

 

[duckfan77]

54 Well, given I don't recognize the system being used, what you posted would be way worse than what today was. The homework consisted of "edit some files and put a comment that they tell you at the top"

 

[GamerwithnoGame]

53. Y'all know more than I do about it...!

 

[lenscas]

54 Well, given I don't recognize the system being used, what you posted would be way worse than what today was. The homework consisted of "edit some files and put a comment that they tell you at the top"

55 that system is something they made up. The stuff between the curlybrackets is meant to represent the memory. The stuff between the square brackets are meant to represent instructions. Thus

{x:=10}

means you have some memory block withing it something called x which has the value 10. and

[x]

is the instruction to get the value of of, meaning that if we combine them to

{x:=10}[x]

we get as answer the value 10.
Of course, we can also make this a bit more "complicated" by putting memory in memory and chaining instructions like

{x:={a1:=10,a2:=5},y:=6}[x][a1:=5][a1]

which means that we have a memory block containing the names x and y.
y contains the simple value 6 and x contains a new memory block. (where a1 has the value 10 and a2 has the value 5)
The instructions are
get the value of X (results in -> {a1:=10,a2:=5})
set a1 to 5 (results in {a1:=5, a2:=5})
return the value of a1 (results in -> 5)

 

[triggerfinger12]

56 What have I just walked into.

 

[GamerwithnoGame]

56. Because Lens was a number too high.

And you've just walked into a pub in Wales, where everyone stops and stares at you.

 

[triggerfinger12]

58 And I'm thinking, "Why must you treat me this way?"

 

[duckfan77]

56 Because you incremented by two

 

[GamerwithnoGame]

55. There we go, back to where we should be

 

[triggerfinger12]

57 Actually, I doubled up because Gamer did the same number as me, 56.

 

[duckfan77]

55, because lens had incremented by two

 

[GamerwithnoGame]

56. Yep! I even said so!

 

[triggerfinger12]

57 I find that answer vague and unconvincing. (because the wording was rather ambiguous)

 

[duckfan77]

56 Hm?