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    From Ed Vance@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Jcurtis on Saturday, July 05, 2025 17:37:41
    Re: Whoops
    By: Ed Vance to Jcurtis on Thu Jul 03 2025 12:29 pm

    Two of your lines made the first page. You hit it just right.

    LOL. That's me with C++ OOP abstractions. Plain C was easier.
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    My only experience with C was a program called C- - .

    Played with that program a little bit many years ago but forgot how to use it.

    My first PC was a C=64, and I got familiar with BASIC.
    Played with LEGO for a while.
    Read books about ML but I'm not a coder.

    Ed
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  • From Jcurtis@VERT to ED VANCE on Saturday, July 05, 2025 18:39:48
    My only experience with C was a program called C- - .

    Wikipedia says something about C--. Not sure if that's what you mean.

    Read books about ML

    Not sure about ML either.

    I'm not a coder.

    It's a menial job but somebody has to do it.

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  • From Ed Vance@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Jcurtis on Saturday, July 12, 2025 16:37:55
    was >

    Wikipedia says something about C--. Not sure if that's what you mean.

    Not sure about ML either.

    It's a menial job but somebody has to do it.

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    Yes, C-- was a program I found on a CD that Prodigy and nternet service had on it.
    After running it I read the Help File and played with it a few days.

    I think I ran it on my Windows 3.1 / DOS 5.0 486 computer years ago.

    Thanks for mentioning Wikipedia had a C-- page,
    I went and read that page and logged back on here to write this Reply.
    Ed
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  • From Ed Vance@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Jcurtis on Saturday, July 12, 2025 16:39:37
    Wikipedia says something about C--. Not sure if that's what you mean.

    Not sure about ML either.

    It's a menial job but somebody has to do it.

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    Oh! , ML meant Machine Language.
    Ed
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  • From Jcurtis@VERT to Ed Vance on Saturday, July 12, 2025 22:00:11
    Re: Whoops
    By: Ed Vance to Jcurtis on Sat Jul 12 2025 04:39 pm

    Oh! , ML meant Machine Language.

    I thought so but you said you're not a coder so I wasn't sure.

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  • From Ed Vance@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Jcurtis on Sunday, July 13, 2025 19:08:51
    Re: Whoops
    By: Ed Vance to Jcurtis on Sat Jul 12 2025 04:39 pm

    I thought so but you said you're not a coder so I wasn't sure.
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    I tried to learn by disassembly on some programs.

    A Commodore 64 maze game i liked playing in the 1980's kept beating me and would quit, after 3 trys.
    I disassembled it and found a location in the program with the value 03.
    I changed the 03 to11.
    That way I didn't have to Run the program as much when I was trying to see if I could get through the maze.
    I could try 11 times before having to typeRUN again.

    On a PC game one portion of it showed a cuss word on the screen.
    I changed that part of the code to a nicer word.

    Not Rocket Science, just piddeling.
    Ed
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  • From Jcurtis@VERT to ED VANCE on Sunday, July 13, 2025 21:12:32
    you said you're not a coder

    On a PC game one portion of it showed a cuss word on the screen.
    I changed that part of the code to a nicer word.

    Not Rocket Science, just piddeling.

    Programming is art. As Knuth said.

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