Exactly who was your interlocutee here ...
Sorry but both my FF spell checker and Cambridge dictionary flag this word as broken. OTOH "interlocutor" is primarily "one's opponent in a conversation". Was it meant to be an "interlo-cutie"? An attempt at newspeak?
it looks to me like your signed off with D with that big old bar
No, I signed off with 'D' (presumably that stands for Paul Dunn and his SpecBAS in your funny world of nicknames, handles and general "safe anonymity") with "nuff said".
Joking aside, I really do perceive his BASIC dialect as some engine in the vein of steam punk subculture:
and his followers, as a group of steam punk deviationists:
that may be fun to look at but are certainly not role models to follow for 10 year old young ladies.
And I am equally fascinated with that cute picture of amateur language dialects: (courtesy of JRS at AllBasic dot info
)
that can hardly do anything but print a "Hello world" at the console prompt yet dare doctor the mature language developers on what's good and what's bad for a "beginner" and what's what on the BASIC scene in general. Sure language development
is fun enough and a worthy challenge even at this rudimentary stage but you'll have miles and miles to go before you're able to cognize the real "blood, sweat and tears" of the profession.
FBSL had a standard 400 lines long BASIC include file that re-implemented LB's sprite graphics engine including its sprite animation scripting "language" in its entirety that worked up to 3 times faster and could handle up to 10 times more animated sprites than its (bloated, buggy, slow, and commercial) prototype. Now what LB user can lecture me on what regards the usability, beginner-friendliness, and applicability of Liberty Basic?
You know what? Why Richard Russell, the author of another successful LB rival -- LB Booster -- quit the old BP dot org was mainly for the same reason, which was the militant profanity of characters like menn that dominated the former home of defunct BASIC dialects. I wouldn't like to see retrogamecoding dot org follow suit.
... and were then addressing all us.
Your guesswork was wrong. My entire message was addressed to Tomaaz. I finished elaborating on his quotations with the bottom line and continued to comment, from my standpoint, on what he and his partizans were doing scoffing the ex-member in his absence.
"While you guys are at it." yep. (Sorry to disturb your vacation but this is fun.)
Scoffing is a pitiful sight to see, hardly any fun for a reasonable man.
I would also have to set them straight if they were saying what a sh*t Mike was. I mean you've got to respect a loyal friend.
I'm almost flattered reading this but on one condition: you should stop shouting in my ears. According to
netiquette, capitalization and boldification of text equals yelling and is generally unwelcome among forum members.
So tell John he can come back (if he wants to), I insist ...
Will do, especially since Paul has also expressed a similar sentiment (hopefully my choice of the word was semantically and situationally correct
).
I will try to put up with his commercial interruptions ...
And that's the most sensible statement I heard from you in quite a while, I must admit.
BTW the Indians are looking really good this year, good thing because I think the Cavs are up for a great fall, it may be a long winter.
I used to play basketball for about three years when my parents noticed I kept growing taller by 10 to 12 cm per year and sent me to a sports school. Luckily I stopped growing fast three years later and had a chance to go train my brain rather than muscles.
Nuff said?
Hopefully yes.
(I also sincerely hope there were no animals, pets, beginners and language authors killed or harmed in that verbal duel. I recognize people's right to have fun but not at the expense of other people).
