your_name = raw_input("What's your name? ")
if your_name.lower() == "freja":
print "You're very stinky,", your_name
else:
print "You smell lovely, ", your_name
Which sounds like the next generation's equivalent of 10 PRINT "JASON IS ACE!" 20 GOTO 10
Posted by: gjw | http://the-fix.org | Thu Apr 7 01:26:14 2005
...although are young kids these days interested in mucking about with programming languages? I was wasting hours writing programs on an Amstrad CPC when I was 8 - somehow, all I can imagine a current 8-year-old wanting to do is play PS2.
Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Thu Apr 7 09:29:26 2005
Programming for fun is still a minority activity. The difference is that in the 1980s, the majority played ball games or watched cartoons, whereas now, the majority play Grand Theft Auto or whatever.
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Posted by: gjw | http://the-fix.org | Thu Apr 7 01:22:07 2005
Heh. I love Python because I can program in it as if it's BASIC. Old habits die hard. C, Java, and Perl even, have a whole other paradigm that I could never completely get my head around.