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My first language was a Pascal-like DSL, learned for the sole purpose of mining ores while I was at school. I think I should credit my salary to Jagex.
by kylecazar 7y ago
My first language was a Pascal-like DSL, learned for the sole purpose of mining ores while I was at school.
I think I should credit my salary to Jagex.
- chrisandchips 7y agoThats too funny. And honestly, the fact that the game translates to the real world directly like that just blows my mind. I met a guy at a hackthon during uni who ran Sals realm of runescape. He told me that the selling the website basically payed his (canadian) tuition in full
- Drip33 7y agoMy Runescape money making adventures paid for most of my life, even to this day.
- bsagdiyev 7y agoKaitnieks SCAR right? I was pretty involved in the cheating scene for RuneScape since around 2001, which I credit with getting me in to tech.
- kylecazar 7y agoThat's the one! Wow. I credit that early exposure for the same.
- tylerlh 7y agoDitto. AutoRune and later SCAR, Sleepwalker, et al were huge inspirations to teenage me. I spent a lot of time bugging Dylock and Kaitnieks for Delphi help over IRC. When I had some downtime a year or so ago, it was really interesting to revisit the reverse-engineered clients (a la RuneBot, PowerBot, etc) and taking a look at how that was done then and now. Actually made me somewhat working with Java again. Very cool to see other folks who found themselves on a similar path thanks to that community!