30 PRINT "MARCUS' PROGRAMMING TIPS"

Welcome back Ulbster Journal readers. Once again its time to dust off your keyboards, switch on your CPU's and get back to some extreme programming with me. Actually I just reused some old code to produce this weeks column, I've changed the name though and just picked any old text at random for my display variables. Believe it or not these completely different programs all produce a very similar result!!!

Java
String message = new String( "Naomi is a geek" );
System.out.println( message );

Perl
$message = "Naomi is a geek\n";
print $message;

Python
message = "Naomi is a geek"
print message

REBOL
message: "Naomi is a geek"
print message

Scheme
(define message "Naomi is a geek\n")
(display message)

10 print "Marcus' programming tips"

20 GOTO 10
30 REM You won't ever get here... hence never read this entry! Get it? ha ha ha Anyway, hello Ulbster journal readers, Marcus here. A really nice bloke called Roy Anarchy has brought me in to shake up the journal and tasked me with writing an interesting article about programming. Who better than I? I thought and so here I am, obviously having mutually agreed to the terms, (and quite a tasty little deal into the bargain, I'm going to get $23 grand over 5 years and keep my image rights, not bad eh?)

For my first column I thought I'd start off with some quite easy code for you to get your teeth into. What do you think of this?

@import url(../css/richedit.css);
@import url(../css/spellcheck.css);
@import url(../css/blogger.richedit.css);

// hide it while the CSS loads
#unreachableError {
display:none;
}

Pretty interesting eh?

Well I think that is quite self explanitory, I'll go a bit further in depth next time.

Marcus