On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Stuart <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/3/6 Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> I just turned 35... today... that's young by the standards of a 70 year >> old >:) > > Happy Birthday ya wise old git. > I started with BBC Basic, moved on to gwbasic then to C, and the rest, as > they say, is history. > First program I ever wrote was a game called Spider. I created person and > spider characters (as in patching over existing letters in the standard > character set), put them on a playing surface and the spider tried to catch > the person as they moved around to pick up asterisks. Really simple but huge > fun. I was hooked. Still am. Is that sort of like Robots, where you try to rescue all the humans, and the robots take a step towards you every time you move? That was my first TI-BASIC program, though I wrote it admittedly just two years ago when I should have been paying attention in Accounting II. :D -- // Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
