Hi I am ldybabydoll, I am new here just wanted to say hi

Anyone, just curious why my reputation is -86? Does that mean I'm a jerk?

Lovely... I forgot to log in :o that was me...

I saw your ad in the Marin IJ, and had to join! There are a lot of homework questions in the language sections, are the students from all over, or is there a 'main college' folks come from?

FWIW, software engineering is, I hope, still in its infancy. There was a lot of work back in the 70's and 80's working on ways of making more accurate code, but that seems to have pretty much been abandoned in favor of the "toss enough stuff into the program and it will sell" model. I can't believe we're still using C++ and it's cousins (like Java) for large applications. Unfortunately, there isn't much of a better choice, so we try to make the best with what we've got.

"It's like using stone knives and bearskins"

- Spock, "City on the Edge of Forever"

Hello all,

I'm Eric from Bradford, Massachusetts. I've been lurking in the forums for a few days, but I hadn't gone in the Coffee House yet... :rolleyes:

Well, about me. I just finished my Junior year in high school, I've known HTML for about a year, PHP since November last year, VB for at least 3 years, Java for about 6 months, Assembler for about 2 months, TWiRQ for about 2 months, and I'm going to learn C++ this fall .

From what I've seen of these forums, people really know what they're talking about. I look forward to posting more in the future .

Welcome! I just checked out your site, and TWiRQ, which is fantastic! A really creative new language.

Maybe we should start a thread on how to solve common homework assignments using only TWiRQ!

An interactive version of TWiRQ could be really instructive to beginning programmers trying to figure out how a machine works. Code flow, registers, unexpected consequences.

Very cool.

Wow... 300 posts, and I never posted anything in this thread!

I'm Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379. On forums that accept that long a name, that's usually what I go by. Other places, it's alc6379, or Alex Cavnar.

Aside from modding here, I am also a moderator, along with DMR at www.justlinux.com, a site focused on helping users with Linux and other open source operating systems and applications. I'm a CPS tech at Dell, been there for a little while. I've been using computers since age 7 (started with an OLD Tandy TRS-80, moved to a blazing 4mhz PC-XT, baby!), now onto whatever else I get the 'unction for.

Currently I would say that I've got about 11 systems running, untold masses down in the basement, waiting to be fired up. In order of preference, I'm running FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, MacOS (versions 6.0.4 to X.3), and then that other OS I hear people talking about resides on some of my systems, too. I've been a Free/Open source afficianado for about 3 years-- some have called me the most laid-back open source zealot you'd ever meet!

All in all, happy to be here, it's been nearly 7 months now, and I'll be happy to get many more months, YEARS, even, in here.

Hey there latest forum-goers! To answer your question, Chainsaw, people come to the language forum from all over, no specific college at all. Welcome, Toba, as well. Chainsaw, may I ask what TWiRQ stands for?

Well, I'm not sure Chainsaw knows .

Well, when I was developing TWiRQ, I decided to use the letters QWERTY to stand for the registers. Unfortunately, E is used in hexadecimal - so I decided to change it to I. That left QWIRTY, the set of 6 one byte registers. I couldn't think of a name, so I rearragned the letters and changed the capitalization of the I - TWiRQ. Here's a simple little TWiRQ program that that calculates square roots in Hexadecimal:


Loops are quite literally "loops" - TWiRQ is definitely an interesting challenge to code in...

Ahh, quite cool indeed