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As a lot of people contended and some proved control of the OS allowed Microsoft to give their applications extra features that competitors did not have.
Other than that as others have said they were making money and a lot of it.
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Unsure how to attach the joke icon when I post from Chrome on Android, but...
DOS is primarily an interpreter for MS BASIC, just as Windows is merely an interpreter for Visual Basic and now C# .
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The casting is a bit strange: Patrick Stewart (Star Trek captain) as Poop 
Seems more like an episode of 'Tales of the unexpected' to me ...
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Enjoy the trailer[^]. With Captain Picard at the end 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Consider the audience it is directed at; my 11 year old daughter is waiting, not so patiently, so see it. My 20 year old niece.. not so much.
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And there's the problem: the kid wants to see it, so the parents have to as well...
Or did you get to miss Frozen? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What you got against carp? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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and Sir Patrick Stewart voices a living turd
It's sad to see Patrick Stewart stoop so low. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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But, did he do a crappy job?
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So it's exactly what any sane person expected when they heard the words "Emoji" and "Movie" put together.
I'm not sure that it's any more shallow than our own generational children's fare. The only people that should be annoyed are the guys that support GitHub - emojicode/emojicode, but I don't really care about them because they support emojicode.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Hey man guess what... PHP 7 now offers strict type checking. Put this at the top your files kinda like Option Explicit in VB...
declare(strict_types=1); Yeah I know, only 20 years too late right?
More Info[^]
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Yeah I know, only 20 years too late right?
And with any luck, another 20 years will go by where I don't have to learn this "language."
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Jeremy Falcon
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Amen! The languages below, I hope I will never have to use them.
PHP, Ruby, Python, and Object-C.
They are not inherently bad, just some quirks that make I scratch my head. What in the world are they thinking when they make some decision to do the syntax, directives, space indentation, and many other requirements the way they are. Its like an after thought features.
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Leng Vang wrote: They are not inherently bad, just some quirks that make I scratch my head
Well PHP I can speak about. If starting it today I'd not learn it, but I've been riding the PHP wave since the 90s and have adopted it much like a stepchild. It must feel loved! So, having used it for a couple decades I can tell you this much...
As to why it's a clusterfudge... it suffers the same problems as the Win32 API did. Part of the reason Microsoft just flat out dumped the API (for the most part) is because it too because a clusterfludge having to keep backwards compatibility from days when fancy designs in languages weren't as mainstream. But as soon as you touch something, things break and tons of people complain. PHP has been king of the web since pre-dotcom boom. And suffers the same exact issues, for better or worse, as it was originally designed for speed over everything else - including design.
It's not like the PHP group has the marketing budget of MS to just dump PHP and start over. And so, you get what we have. Despite it's design issues though, I still find PHP useful and of course, it's the grandfather of a lot of these web languages. So, it has to receive some love for that, if for no other reason then to serve as a stepping stone for improvement. Prior to PHP, most fancy web dev was done over CGI directly in C/C++. PHP helped proliferate server-side web development.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: kinda like Option Explicit in VB
I'm pretty sure you meant Option Strict (which can also be set in Visual Studio for ALL your VB files) 
Ah, those good old VB days 
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No I meant Option Explicit. I know of Option Strict, but I meant how the Option mechanism works. And I used Option Explicit since it's by far the more popular of the options in VB land. It's called context and inference bro. Not everything is so literal. But, thanks for the correction I didn't ask for as usual. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Sorry, I was just getting nostalgic
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Wow, I'm not that old! 
I started with Visual Basic.NET in 2010 and switched to C# in 2013 or something.
Didn't know repl.it though, pretty neat stuff! 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Wow, I'm not that old
Just wait, my friend, one day you will be. Maybe... science and all being what it is.
Jeremy Falcon
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ain't it great how type-free languages feel all growed-up when they get types, while typed languages take a step into the future when they learn how to be type-free?
it's like people just enjoy change.
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