Fuair mé 96, ach silím go bhain mé a lán pointí as rudaí sean-nós (assembler, C-64s, "Carrier Detect," srl). Cuir an quiz seo barraíocht béime ar ábhair den sórt sin, dar liomsa.
Having been around long enough to have dealt with old technology really helped on that quiz. To paraphrase the Dilbert cartoon, when I started programming we didn't have any of these sissy icons and windows. All we had were zeros and ones. And sometimes we we didn't even have ones. I once coded an entire database program using only zeros.
And we considered ourselves lucky... there were kids who had to use the letter "O".
Lá amháin, bhí wombat spadintinneach ina shuí san fhéar, agus an-uaigneas air. Is ainmhí cearnógach é an wombat, a mbíonn fionnadh tiubh mar mhata tairsí air, cosa giortacha air, agus gan aon eireaball air ar fiú trácht air. Bíonn súile donna air, agus srón chothromach chompordach leathrúil mar koala air. Bhí uaigneas ar an wombat seo mar bhí sé gan deirfiúr ná deartháir ná aintín ná uncail ar bith aige, agus thairis sin, chaith sé a airgead póca go léir.
"Is mian liom cara a bheith agam," a dúirt sé leis féin, "cara deas beag sócúlach a rachadh isteach i bpóca mo chairdeagan. Bheadh eachtraí go leor ag wombat le cara mar sin."
-- The Muddle-headed Wombat by Ruth Park (aistriúchán Ghaeilge agam)
3 comments:
98?? Flippin jaysus.
I only got 36, but would consider myself quite au fait with computer thingies stuff.
Fuair mé 96, ach silím go bhain mé a lán pointí as rudaí sean-nós (assembler, C-64s, "Carrier Detect," srl). Cuir an quiz seo barraíocht béime ar ábhair den sórt sin, dar liomsa.
Having been around long enough to have dealt with old technology really helped on that quiz. To paraphrase the Dilbert cartoon, when I started programming we didn't have any of these sissy icons and windows. All we had were zeros and ones. And sometimes we we didn't even have ones. I once coded an entire database program using only zeros.
And we considered ourselves lucky... there were kids who had to use the letter "O".
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