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So, I finally did it — I started to learn C++. This is a big deal for me. I haven’t accomplished anything particularly interesting — in fact, my efforts have thus far been rather pathetic — but it’s just a start.

So far, I wrote a console based piece of crap that prints out whatever you type in backwards, and an even crappier graphical piece of crap that prints out “Hewwo, welcome to HOMESTARRUNNER.NET. It’s dot com.” Don’t ask.

Anyway, I’m quite liking it. Sure, Visual C++ looks like it was designed by someone with severe mental retardation, but it’s got all the stuff I love about C. Pointers, segmentation faults, no memory management — it’s programming the way it’s meant to be. Or something.

For some reason, coding in Visual Basic isn’t particularly impressive. The only thing less impressive than VB is Java.