Tue 18 Mar 2008
Okay well the food at the market today was not all I had hoped, probably because I went back on my word and didn’t get an omelet covered in tomato sauce. Instead I got some rammen something or other which was tasty. The problem arrived with the rice covered in mucusy goo soaked beans. I took a picture but I am too lazy right now to pull it off of my phone, crop it, and post it. I tried to eat it but it just tasted too nasty. Sort of like baked beans with out the sweetness.
Tue 24 Apr 2007
So I am a computer science major, as such everyone expects me to love to program. Let me set things straight right now: I don’t. Well not really. I did enjoy writing a driver in perl that initiated a bunch of sorting algorithms and compared their times. I also like learning new languages I am currently working on learning a bit of Python. Python creeps me out because it does not use end of line characters, at least not that I have discovered yet.
example: printing Hello world!
perl:
print "\nhello world\n";
c:
main() { printf("\nhello world!\n"); }
python:
print '\nhello world\n'
GAA!! Notice the complete lack of semi-colon! As if this oft mis understood piece of punctuation hasn’t been trimmed from the english language enough now we must remove it from programing as well?! What will the future coders of America complain about?! Do you know how many hours of my life have been spent hunting for the missing semi-colon? or the misplaced semicolon? (interestingly enough demi, semi, and hemi can all mean the same thing),,, So I guess good riddance to the foul thing.