001 - Could use someone to talk to

[binauralbees]

TA: okay 2o...
TA: doe2 anyone here know anythiing about coding?
TA: ii only know ~ATH code...
TA: but ii could u2e 2ome other2 two learn
TA: iif anyone ii2 iintere2ted ii could try two explaiin ~ATH two.

Comments

sorry this took so long

[binauralbees]

TA: iit'2 an e2oteriic programmiing language priimariily geared toward2 iimmiinently decea2ed programmer2
TA: iit'2 mo2tly compo2ed of iinfiiniite loop2

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[...]

"Imminently diseased programmers"?

So it's a structured language based around loops that repeat until their exit conditions are fulfilled?

[binauralbees]

TA: not dii2ea2ed
TA: decea2ed...a2 iin
TA: 2oon two be dead
TA: the only way two get anythiing done wiith ~ATH ii2 two u2e the EXECUTE 2tatement
TA: but the EXECUTE 2tatement2 can only be placed at the end of the eponymou2 ~ATH loop2
TA: the loop's liife ii2 bound two a 2peciifiied object'2 liife
TA: iit'll only terminate after that object diie2
TA: 2o yeah....2omethiing liike that

oops, that was a typo

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[This programming language is sounding weirder the more he learns about it.]

Why does it matter if the programmer is going to die soon?

What kinds of objects can you bind to a loop?

Oh...oops! I just thought

[binauralbees]

[ Yeah...sorry Rob. ]

TA:....iit'2 ju2t how iit work2
TA: a2 for what 2ort of thiing2
TA: liiterally anythiing
TA: ii wrote one that u2ed two diifferent uniiver2e2 a2 the object2
TA: that wa2
TA: not my briighte2t hour

No worries

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

Several billion years seems like an excessive run-time.

Elements with short half-lives seem like a better way to go.

Re: No worries

[binauralbees]

TA: yeah
TA: except when iit ii2n't
TA: our uniiver2e la2ted....not very long
TA: liike....maybe a 2weep

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[Well this conversation took a depressing turn.]

Your homeworld's gone too, eh?

[He's not sure if he should ask this, but does anyway.]

How many escaped?

[binauralbees]

[ There's a long pause before Sollux finally starts to respond again. ]

TA: yeah...
TA: about...12 of us...

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

That's around 11 more than mine.

[Rob tries not to picture what those who didn't survive looked like. He fails. He redirects his thoughts to something related but less depressing.]

I don't know what your plans are after this, but it sounds like Ozuma can have people sent back to a different world once we're done here if you do a favor for him. There's a place called the Bastion that will take you in if you need somewhere to go. Everyone there has lost their homeworlds too. It's not heavily-developed yet, but we've got running water and electricity working already.

[binauralbees]

[ Sollux frowns, more of a snarl with alifted lip. He didn't know this guy and sure most would be appreciative of the guys kindness but with Trolls it was different. Human pity was a weakness with them. ]

Yeah no. My friendth and I have a job to do...we're working on making a new home.

or at leatht we're trying to help thothe idiot humanth.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[So this guy has somewhere to go once they defeat the queen? Rob's glad of that. He wouldn't want anyone to have to go through the torture of returning to a destroyed world.]

Good luck with that.

[Which part? Making a new home or helping those idiot humans? Yes.]

[binauralbees]

Thankth....I gueth.

[ Sollux shrugs a bit before looking away from his camera, in favor for something on his...computer screen? Yeah he came in with his Husktop, but it doesn't have the best connection to the network. He's working on that.

Still that's what he uses for him his coding. ]