Re: Describe what you do in 34 characters

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On 3/12/2011 11:36 PM, Lionel wrote:
The most annoying have been about two dozen flavours of MS BASIC, &
numerous horrible scripting languages that've been built into various
applications.

The most annoying I've run into was Verifone's TCL (no, not that TCL),
which was used to program some of their credit card terminals. It was
best described as looking something like assembler without symbolic
addresses (when coding a branch, you had to count how many instructions
you were going to skip over).

Ben
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