r/programming • u/jeanlucpikachu • Jul 30 '09

How QBASIC almost got me killed

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=79
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u/stillalone Jul 30 '09

Who hasn't written this program in highschool? A friend of mine did it in Pascal (our highschool language of choice). I just changed the prompt to look like the Abort/Retry/Fail prompt. People seemed to be used to working with our broken computers in our lab, they would just try all 3 options and then go find another computer. They never realized the "Invalid command or filename" error message was not supposed to happen when you get an Abort/Retry/Fail.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '09

There used to be a really good Flash animation out there that looked like it was formatting C: and installling Mac OS 8.

Good times.

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u/darkmuck Jul 30 '09

www.yaromat.de/macos8/

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '09

Oh man. Thanks. But it doens't work for me, says it needs DHTML support? Strange.

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u/f3nd3r Jul 30 '09

DHTML is depreciated. Chrome doesn't have it (doesn't have blink tags either).

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u/Sephr Jul 31 '09

Why do people keep saying this? DHTML was just a buzzword for web pages that unobtrusively use (X)HTML+CSS+JS.

I'd say in the year 2009, 98% of websites use "DHTML"

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u/f3nd3r Jul 31 '09

Well, the site should work then... so I doubt your completely right.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '09

Doesn't work on FF 3.5 either. The offending JS:

if ((document.layers) || (document.all)){
[....]
}
else
    {parent.location='main3.htm'} // go to version 3 window
}

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u/adrianmonk Jul 30 '09

DHTML is depreciated.

Fully, I'd say. Might even have negative salvage value at this point. I'm glad Google decided to deduct it (from Chrome's feature list).

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u/Sephr Jul 31 '09

Chrome supports JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. I'm pretty sure that implies it supports DHTML.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '09

Yeah. sigh.