Wondering if I've got the skills to code.

[MrFigg]

I wrote a program and am feeling pretty good about it. I'm wondering if I can take it to the next stage and start coding. Here's the program if anyone is interested. It's open source:

10 PRINT "MrFigg"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

[Rising Night Wave]

haha

[DaveyG]

You might struggle to find something to run that on these days.

[MrFigg]

You might struggle to find something to run that on these days.

People part with thousands for original analog synths. £50’ll get you a 48k ZX Speccy on EBay .

[RobC]

I do have a PET, I think, with beautiful fluorescent green screen. : )

[DaveyG]

You might struggle to find something to run that on these days.

People part with thousands for original analog synths. £50’ll get you a 48k ZX Speccy on EBay .

I'm glad you specified the 48K version. You don't want to be running out of memory in the middle of composing your monophonic beep concerto.

[Vincent Vitellius]

Sorry, you are a sloppy programmer...

Your program can be optimized to this:

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0PRINT"MrFigg":GOTO
RUN

You save a couple of bytes by coding the entire app on one line.
You save another couple of bytes by eliminating the spaces
You save another couple of bytes by not specifying an argument on the GOTO command. If no argument is supplied, 0 is implied.
That's also why you start with line 0
The GOTO optimization also saves a few CPU cycles, making the app run faster.

No wonder apps have become bloatware these days. Sigh.

Who needs readable code when there are no bugs to debug?

[MrFigg]

Sorry, you are a sloppy programmer...

Your program can be optimized to this:

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0PRINT"MrFigg":GOTO
RUN

You save a couple of bytes by coding the entire app on one line.
You save another couple of bytes by eliminating the spaces
You save another couple of bytes by not specifying an argument on the GOTO command. If no argument is supplied, 0 is implied.
That's also why you start with line 0
The GOTO optimization also saves a few CPU cycles, making the app run faster.

No wonder apps have become bloatware these days. Sigh.

Who needs readable code when there are no bugs to debug?

There's a place for you on the team.

[jam-s]

I wrote a program and am feeling pretty good about it. I'm wondering if I can take it to the next stage and start coding. Here's the program if anyone is interested. It's open source:

10 PRINT "MrFigg"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

Yo, that's some true mad bad old school basic skillz.

[challism]

I'm wondering if I've got the code for skills.

[fullforce]

I wrote a program and am feeling pretty good about it. I'm wondering if I can take it to the next stage and start coding. Here's the program if anyone is interested. It's open source:

10 PRINT "MrFigg"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

10 INPUT "What is your name":A$
20 IF A$="MrFigg" then goto 50
30 IF A$="Fullforce" then PRINT "cool name":goto 60
40 PRINT "nobody cares":end
50 PRINT "WHAT A TOSSER NAME!!!"
60 end

[MrFigg]

I wrote a program and am feeling pretty good about it. I'm wondering if I can take it to the next stage and start coding. Here's the program if anyone is interested. It's open source:

10 PRINT "MrFigg"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

10 INPUT "What is your name":A$
20 IF A$="MrFigg" then goto 50
30 IF A$="Fullforce" then PRINT "cool name":goto 60
40 PRINT "nobody cares":end
50 PRINT "WHAT A TOSSER NAME!!!"
60 end

10 GOTO hell
Run!!!

[integerpoet]

You might struggle to find something to run that on these days.

Hell, these days there are Apple II emulators you can tweet that program to and they'll tweet back what it does.

At least as long as Twitter stays up.

[MrFigg]

Peek and poke

[platzangst]

10 GOTO hell
Run!!!

[Heater]

10 PRINT "WAITING FOR NATIVE M1 SUPPORT"
20 IF M1SUPPORT = TRUE THEN GOTO 60
30 IF M1SUPPORT = FALSE THEN GOTO 40
40 PRINT "WAITING FOREVER"
50 GOTO 40
60 PRINT "HELL HAS FROZEN OVER. M1 SUPPORT HAS ARRIVED!!!"

[crimsonwarlock]

10 PRINT "WAITING FOR NATIVE M1 SUPPORT"
20 IF M1SUPPORT = TRUE THEN GOTO 60
30 IF M1SUPPORT = FALSE THEN GOTO 40
40 PRINT "WAITING FOREVER"
50 GOTO 40
60 PRINT "HELL HAS FROZEN OVER. M1 SUPPORT HAS ARRIVED!!!"

So, no M1 support now means no M1 support ever, according to your code

[Heater]

10 PRINT "WAITING FOR NATIVE M1 SUPPORT"
20 IF M1SUPPORT = TRUE THEN GOTO 60
30 IF M1SUPPORT = FALSE THEN GOTO 40
40 PRINT "WAITING FOREVER"
50 GOTO 40
60 PRINT "HELL HAS FROZEN OVER. M1 SUPPORT HAS ARRIVED!!!"

So, no M1 support now means no M1 support ever, according to your code

That's what it feels like

[crimsonwarlock]

So, no M1 support now means no M1 support ever, according to your code

That's what it feels like

People used to think that way about VST3 too, and now...