{"id":243,"date":"2008-07-11T16:57:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T20:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2008-07-13T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T15:00:56","slug":"from-ancient-to-more-ancient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"From Ancient to More Ancient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ring I originally wanted (size 5.5), is no longer available on sale (size 5.5). But it&#8217;s OK because I found ones I like better (size 5.5) :D See first two rings: <a href=\"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/wedding\/?p=44\">Some More of My Favorite Rings<\/a> &#8230; (size 5.5) I&#8217;m going to go try on rings this weekend (size 5.5) to see what style looks better on me. Then Bryan can buy it :D (size 5.5.)<\/p>\n<p>As for the C, the C is done! Yay! It actually wasn&#8217;t so bad. I only had one pointer issue and I had Robby help me.<br \/>\n<code>Thing-> field in thing<\/code>. OK, that makes sense.<br \/>\n<code>( struct longAssName *) thing[index].thingInThat[index].thingInThat <\/code> &#8230; WTF is that crap????<\/p>\n<p>So, C&#8217;s done, but the next piece of code I have to work on is worse than C. It&#8217;s in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COBOL\">COBOL<\/a>. Why? Because the programming gods hate me. Do I know COBOL at all? No. Have I even seen COBOL before yesterday? No.<br \/>\nA quote overheard from my team lead as he was programming the other day: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goto\">GOTOs<\/a>!?!?&#8221; I also heard &#8220;Bite me!&#8221; a couple of times.<\/p>\n<p>If gotos aren&#8217;t funny enough: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/INTERCAL_programming_language\">INTERCAL<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Obfuscated_C_Code_Contest\">and some fun with C<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ring I originally wanted (size 5.5), is no longer available on sale (size 5.5). But it&#8217;s OK because I found ones I like better (size 5.5) :D See first two rings: Some More of My Favorite Rings &#8230; (size 5.5) I&#8217;m going to go try on rings this weekend (size 5.5) to see what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bQP0-3V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}