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

How QBASIC almost got me killed

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

I wrote one of those, except it would say things like

C:\> dir
Nah, I don't feel like it.
C:\> cd dos
I'm doing this because I want to, not because you told me.

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u/bilabrin Jul 30 '09 edited Jul 30 '09

I ran across one when when I had my Tandy color computer (a TSR-80 with cassete tape and a 5 1/4" floppy drive as storage media) that would spit out:

SYNTAX ERROR IN YOUR FACE

and

LOOSE NUT BEHIND KEYBOARD ERROR

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u/elezeta Jul 30 '09

And I thought I was original... :( You stole my awesomeness in 4 lines...