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jwbrase
April 25th, 2010, 12:05 AM
If instead of doing my Haskell coding homework, I just spent hours on a mainframe emulator writing a "Hello World" program in machine code, does that make me a nerd?

Bachstelze
April 25th, 2010, 12:05 AM
No. A real nerd would do his Haskell homework.

akand074
April 25th, 2010, 12:14 AM
No. A real nerd would do his Haskell homework.

hahahaha good one!

Maybe it makes you a geek.

Bölvağur
April 25th, 2010, 12:45 AM
perhaps.
but it doesnt make you much bigger nerd than many of us on the forum... if that helps you regain your "I am normal" view of your self.

RiceMonster
April 25th, 2010, 12:53 AM
If instead of doing my Haskell coding homework, I just spent hours on a mainframe emulator writing a "Hello World" program in machine code, does that make me a nerd?

No, that makes you a masochist.

I say that because I used to have a job working on a mainframe. Just tell me it wasn't an iSeries or AS/400 emulator.

clonne4crw
April 25th, 2010, 02:08 AM
Anything that involves writing in raw machine code makes you a real nerd. :guitar:

Frogs Hair
April 25th, 2010, 02:10 AM
Do you look like this ?

Giant Speck
April 25th, 2010, 02:11 AM
If instead of doing my Haskell coding homework, I just spent hours on a mainframe emulator writing a "Hello World" program in machine code, does that make me a nerd?

You'd be closer to geek than nerd. A nerd would probably enjoy reading about the history of Haskell coding, for example, not actually using it.

mmalone21
April 25th, 2010, 02:14 AM
No, nerd would write a program to do the assignment for him like I always do.

renkinjutsu
April 25th, 2010, 02:21 AM
No, nerd would write a program to do the assignment for him like I always do.

What if said nerd's assignment WAS to write a program that does the assignment for him?


D; recursion

mmalone21
April 25th, 2010, 02:26 AM
What if said nerd's assignment WAS to write a program that does the assignment for him?


D; recursion

Then he would be an "uber-nerd" and should make a robot to write a program to do the work using the new open source robotic programing language I just read about this past week, I can't remember the name. That you also make you a geek.

sisco311
April 25th, 2010, 02:39 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow | sed "s_nerd_bird_g"

red_Marvin
April 25th, 2010, 03:12 AM
renkinjutsu: I think submitting a quine would work.

mmalone21
April 25th, 2010, 03:18 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qDSvfpaGiI

steveneddy
April 25th, 2010, 03:19 AM
What makes you a nerd is after doing it you post on UF about it.

:popcorn:

_0R10N
April 25th, 2010, 03:36 AM
Like a lot of people has said, I think you were closer to a geek act than to a nerd one. But a real geek would have his homework done in machine code... not bad, also!

_0R10N >>

jwbrase
April 25th, 2010, 03:38 AM
No, that makes you a masochist.

I say that because I used to have a job working on a mainframe. Just tell me it wasn't an iSeries or AS/400 emulator.

S/370. And yes, the fact that I'd rather spend time writing machine code by hand than programming in a high level lang probably does make me a masochist. The fact that I'm using an architecture that uses EBCDIC probably does too, though my architecture choice was for a large part because I was looking for an emulator of a mainframe or minicomputer with a good interface.

RiceMonster
April 25th, 2010, 05:59 AM
S/370. And yes, the fact that I'd rather spend time writing machine code by hand than programming in a high level lang probably does make me a masochist. The fact that I'm using an architecture that uses EBCDIC probably does too, though my architecture choice was for a large part because I was looking for an emulator of a mainframe or minicomputer with a good interface.

Yuck, EBCDIC. I hope nobody enjoys dealing with that.

Frak
April 25th, 2010, 06:28 AM
Yuck, EBCDIC. I hope nobody enjoys dealing with that.
Reminds me of working on EBCDIC<->ASCII converters. Reason: none.

lisati
April 25th, 2010, 06:37 AM
All of a sudden with this talk of S/370 and EBCDIC I'm experiencing an S0C1 (or is that S0C4? probably both with an occasional 0C9 thrown in for good measure....)

Frak
April 25th, 2010, 06:52 AM
All of a sudden with this talk of S/370 and EBCDIC I'm experiencing an S0C1 (or is that S0C4? probably both with an occasional 0C9 thrown in for good measure....)
S0C7 for teh lulz. 2 / "cookie" ftw.

lisati
April 25th, 2010, 06:54 AM
S0C7 for teh lulz. 2 / "cookie" ftw.

Ouch!

Penguin Guy
May 16th, 2010, 03:18 PM
What if said nerd's assignment WAS to write a program that does the assignment for him?
Easy homework:

(blank file)
A blank file will output it's source code. (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1454997#5)

As for the original subject: If you were a true nerd, you would have done both.