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A comment on TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System. Parent comment

Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by maxander on Saturday October 08, 2016 @01:40PM (#12667803)
Else Heart.Break() has definite aesthetic charm, but the programming required (as far as I played, at least) is pretty shallow- geared towards clever highschoolers, I suspect.

A collaboration between them and Zachtronics would be lovely.

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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by dmd on Saturday October 08, 2016 @01:48PM (#12667842)
Grade or middle school, really. "Clever highschoolers" are writing their own bare-metal OSes these days.
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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @04:18PM (#12668548)
And us stupid highschoolers are writing IF engines in Scheme.

And yes, I did write one. It totally sucked, but it did work, mostly.

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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by esoteric_wombat on Saturday October 08, 2016 @04:54PM (#12668683)
Heck, if you're doing anything substantial with Scheme in high school then you're on a great track.
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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @05:20PM (#12668780)
Now if it was substantial, it wouldn't suck so much, now would it?
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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by wolfgke on Saturday October 08, 2016 @04:09PM (#12668506)
> "Clever highschoolers" are writing their own bare-metal OSes these days.

Perhaps you are even right since advanced Arduino programming (which many "Clever highschoolers" should be able to do) is in some sense like writing a really simple RTOS. :-)

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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by lmitchell on Saturday October 08, 2016 @09:06PM (#12669411)
Or, well, there are the highschoolers who are actually writing OSes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045254 :P
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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @07:20PM (#12669191)
And of course, let us not forget that a clever highschooler wrote Babel.
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