Sinphaltimus Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Don't be shy, you can tell me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Nah, EndShell for me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Exit is a bad command as the ends GPL and goes to Title Screen so everything you were working on is not saved. As i mostly right in GPL I rarely type exit, but have mistakenly type BYE in GPL at times. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Not as often as I have wanted to type "LOAD DSKx.filename" instead of "OLD DSKx.filename". Similarities with other systems aside, LOAD would have been consistent with the DSR routine names and Editor Assembler (i.e., Load and Run). But I digress. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Not as often as I have wanted to type "LOAD DSKx.filename" instead of "OLD DSKx.filename". Similarities with other systems aside, LOAD would have been consistent with the DSR routine names and Editor Assembler (i.e., Load and Run). But I digress. I have typed RUN "DSK#.filename" most of the time even when i ment to have typed OLD "DSK#.filename" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 (edited) Not as often as I have wanted to type "LOAD DSKx.filename" instead of "OLD DSKx.filename". Similarities with other systems aside, LOAD would have been consistent with the DSR routine names and Editor Assembler (i.e., Load and Run). But I digress. Load vs. Old is my second most common oops on the TI. I spend a lot of time in the Windows command prompt and exit happens without even a thought. Edited October 19, 2016 by Sinphaltimus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I sound a lot of time ... Auto-correction? It took an awful lot of time until I understood that OLD is meant as the opposite of NEW; I always wondered why they did not call it LOAD. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 Auto-correction? It took an awful lot of time until I understood that OLD is meant as the opposite of NEW; I always wondered why they did not call it LOAD. Yeah, should have been "spend" - corrected, thanks. Nothing like autocorrect before caffeine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I'm sure it used to work. If I just keep trying ... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Ok, somewhere I remember reading about why TI went with OLD instead of LOAD. IIRC (which I probably do not) it had something to do with ANSI standard, re: mizapf OLD vs NEW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I'm sure it used to work. If I just keep trying ... I'm going to steal your GIF, it has multiple uses and is funny... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I'm going to steal your GIF, it has multiple uses and is funny... saaaaame for meeee please :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 I'm sure it used to work. If I just keep trying ... Welcome to the Hotel California.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion Yes but in my particular instance the purpose is to close Classic99. So indeed it is recursion that's happening but my brain just wants C99 to close without having to touch the mouse or alt+f4. LOL. I don't think I would ever do this on real iron. The mindset is different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Forth: <block#> LOAD ...lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apersson850 Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 The BASIC for the TI990 mini computers, on which the 99/4 and 99/4A BASIC versions are based, uses OLD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 I seem to remember seeing an article way back in time that mentioned that TI BASIC is rooted in ANSI Standard BASIC for all of its naming conventions and functions. I also remember that the article mentioned only one other home computer of that era that also used a flavor of ANSI--I think it was the COSMAC ELF. Pretty much everyone else used a flavor of Microsoft BASIC (which was also the first Microsoft product that sold in quantity, as they were contracted out by an awful lot of computer manufacturers to port their BASIC over once it took the Homebrew computer market by storm, becoming the de facto standard). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 (edited) When you accidentally paste source in to classic99 and is screams at you to stop it. Edited November 4, 2016 by Sinphaltimus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 (edited) Or when you forget to unREMark a couple lines of code that load in your char codes. Edited November 4, 2016 by Sinphaltimus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredrik Öhrström Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 When you accidentally paste source in to classic99 and is screams at you to stop it. doh.png When I did my first programming course at university 1992, I did this in an interesting way. The assignment was to extend an Eliza program written in Scheme (lisp dialect) and I accidently pasted parts of the source code at the running prompt. To that the program responded: Maybe in our fantasy we quote each other? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 When you accidentally paste source in to classic99 and is screams at you to stop it. doh.png hehe... press ESC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 hehe... press ESC Yes indeed. Usually, I copy paste and walk away. So as soon as the syntax error sounds hit it's like a panic to disarm a ticking time bomb or something. Gets me every time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 I've done it too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Ok, somewhere I remember reading about why TI went with OLD instead of LOAD. IIRC (which I probably do not) it had something to do with ANSI standard, re: mizapf OLD vs NEW. The original Dartmouth BASIC ran on a timesharing computer system that used some operating system commands to interact with BASIC. This system used OLD to retrieve programs from storage. It also used BYE to sign off. (HELLO was used to sign in). It seems like TI followed the Dartmouth standard pretty closely with TI 990 BASIC, which 99/4 BASIC was derived from. If you find the manual for 990 BASIC online, you'll see how similar 99/4 BASIC. http://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/commands.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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