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Have you ever been in an argument where you absolutely objectively proved you were correct? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Many moons ago I was in a very heated argument that you could write a fully functional program in notepad.

I was trying to explain what COM files were, they just didn't understand enough about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That seems like an odd thing to argue against. Did they mean that it wasn't possible? Or wasn't a good idea? Or was this before scripting languages and the point was you needed a compiler? So many questions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah to clarify their point they didn't believe me that it was possible to write executable code outside of an ordinary scripting language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I mean, in any instance if you can write code with ed, i don't know why you couldn't with notepad.