I refuse to let knowledge about Calvinball-level grotesque rules about quoting and escaping in bash encumber my mind.

Good decision and avoid the shell whenever you can. Too late for me. I did my fair share of shell programming (and learned if from some real masters) so that my mind is already encumbered. My confidence in being able to write a longer or more complex shell script with 0 errors is still 0, so it gives me nothing.

> readable C > return uu____0;

If readability is the selling point, why not go the extra millimeter and add a heuristic so that this variable is named return_value for instance?

While they were at it they should have explored whether those kings were actually the cause of those global climate events. You never know, with enough slicing, dicing and p-hacking you can get interesting conclusions :)

I purchased Turbo Pascal 3 for Amstrad CPC 6128 with my pocket money back in 1989(?). That was 1000 FF back then (~275€ today) so quite a big sum for a teenager. My dad took pity on me and funded 50% of it. Best investment ever!

Learning Pascal after Locomotive Basic was night and day. And the speeeeeed! I could finally compute 320x200 Mandelbrot set renderings in reasonable amounts of time (few minutes IIRC).

I still have the disk & manual somewhere, as well as a couple related books. And for whatever reason Ctrl-K Ctrl-W still haunts my mind.

It's really mind boggling that the entire thing (CP/M + IDE + compiler + libraries) fit on one side of a 3" floppy disk (<180 kB).

I just looked up the price for Acornsoft ISO Pascal in 1989 and found a listing with 69 pounds, which would be 188 2026 pounds or 220 euros. It consists of 2 16KB ROMs (and a floppy version).

Yes, for me a few year's later I did the same with a high density floppy (1.44 MB), holding MS-DOS 3.3, TP, and a few utils.

The TP versions started with 3.0, up to 6.0, naturally later versions had to be customised to fit into the floppy.

I used to carry it around for the school computers.

However that is another level given CPC limitations.

I first encountered Pascal (probably Turbo Pascal) on our Amstrad CPC 464, which being bought as used item came with lots of software floppies including some CPM stuff. Lacking a manual I never really used it though. I do remember it had a really barebones textmode-only editor. :)

French video explaining how one particular telemarketing scam works in France:

https://youtu.be/1HoU17dIEos?is=8giBMS_TRJEvmzM3

I'm really curious to see what impact the new law will have on this scourge.

Please reconsider this comment. Calling one side superior and the other side insects really doesn't help with the discussion, and dehumanizing a whole swath of people really has dark consequences.

Yeah, sorry for being edgy. But remember the understanding of universal human dignity your comment is stemming from is not shared globally.

At least not shared by you, apparently.

That's why I'm inferior!