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When I was really young, I opened a few .exe files in Notepad to try to figure out how they were created. I remember at one point seeing all of the garbage char
by Minor49er 5y ago
When I was really young, I opened a few .exe files in Notepad to try to figure out how they were created. I remember at one point seeing all of the garbage character output and thought, "wow, someone wrote and understands all of this?"
- seryoiupfurds 5y agoConversely, I didn't have much luck renaming my basic programs to .exe.
- deckard1 5y agothis is how I switched from GW-BASIC to QuickBASIC. I found out that QB could make .exe files like a big boy compiler. Switching to QuickBASIC was like stepping into the future, coming from GW-BASIC. No more line numbers. Actual subroutines. A quite nice IDE that separates out subroutines similar to the code browser in Smalltalk/Squeak.