Michael Cornelius @emdeesee@octodon.social

@ajroach42 I've used Hypercard extensively, making both apps and informational decks, though I was already an adult when Hypercard emerged. It was easy to get to do simple things and difficult to get to do complex things. But you *could* do complex things, which always felt like an accomplishment when it worked out.

It was also limited to the most expensive personal computing platform of the time.

I have nothing against Hypercard; it's fine.

@ajroach42 Sorry, I must have missed it.

@ajroach42 Were I in the position of guiding a young person toward programming, writing games, etc., I would consider the firefox as the platform, and show them how to get to the javascript console. This would have many of the benefits of Hypercard and the BASICs of the even more distant past, mainly instantaneous gratification, getting visible results with relatively little effort, and the opportunity to play with with stuff.

@zigg Ahhh, the distant past when you could ✌️ program ✌️ your ✌️ home computer ✌️...

@bradlibum You invented the "spoodle".

@DialMforMara @Canageek Khajiit 4 life

@rnelson Still belongs to Oracle.

@phoe Ah, interesting. It hadn't occurred to me this is a method of coercing updates.

"Hey, emdeesee, why do you go on about Common Lisp. Have you ever tried Clojure, a modern Lisp dialect?"

https://java.com/en/download/release_notice.jsp

@zigg Well done!

What has two thumbs and was surprised a vegetarian Reuben sandwich could be that good?

👍 👍

@viciousviscosity 🖖 #vulcanhighfive

I want to go to there.

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2018/03/07/kigumi-the-japanese-museum-of-interlocking-wooden-joints/

@viciousviscosity My win is that you used this particular gif of Liz Lemon, which ... it me

Proposal agreed to by the ISO C++ standard committee:

"The Committee should be willing to consider the design / quality of proposals even if they may cause a change in behavior or failure to compile for existing code."

Wow.

http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2018/04/14/the-c-committee-has-taken-off-its-ball-and-chain/

@RexfordGTugwell @zatnosk The set of foods I can eat while remaining socially acceptable expands!

@zatnosk That might work out!