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I (vaguely) remember writing a QBASIC subroutine that would
take a string and a substring, and search that string for
an instance of a substring, so the program would continue
depending on the user input. I was greatly obsessed with
Zork at the time, particularly Return to Zork, and after
buying the original Zork games at a pawnshop set about
trying to write my own. There were many CASE-statements,
let me tell you!
I forget why I stopped... after having my "batch file commander" stage and my "write a QBASIC program for everything I can think of" stage I got fed up the languages I had to work with. Mom and Dad got me a Borland Turbo C++ compiler for my birthday one year and I just got frustrated with that too... didn't make it very far with the infinitely more complex language (at least it seemed so at the time). I believe I dropped programming altogether and started hitting the BBS scene and focusing on hardware. Beautiful, sweet, simple hardware. =) That was the end of that. A few years later I discovered mIRC-script. A year or two later, Linux, databases and Perl. It was downhill from there! Ah, memories... Alakaboo ...a short time later... Great scott, I found it! LOL... You aren't going to believe this:
{dies of laughter} I also found a H2O trivia program for 6th grade science class, a modem chat program for two people to connect via analog modem and type with each other, an ASCII flat file parser that would build a webpage out of a small database, and a program I wrote that would search a database of the Windows 95 CAB files and tell you which CAB the file you need is in. Oh, brother! In reply to (alakaboo: ravioli) RE: (2) What was your first program?
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