Guido van Rossum. CWI. Ha. I may have encountered him. I used to know a mathematician who used to work there and I have been to the CWI. That must have been between 1988 and 1994.

Okay.

First thing I notice is that ” and ‘ appear to be interchangeable. Let me test that. Check. ✔️

Its very intuitive, so far. I’ve done a tiny bit of Basic without computer and a tiny bit of UNIX with computer and a tiny bit of Turbo Pascal with computer, all a few millennia ago, and tons of HTML in notepad and a tiny bit of JavaScript and a lot of DOS and a tiny bit of its predecessor and a tiny bit of a statistics suite (geochemical data analysis, concerning p,T indicators in, I think, pyroxenes) of which I don’t remember the name but that was (probably) before Windows (in 1988 or thereabouts) and forced me to let the computer run and stick a note on it telling people not to switch it off pretty please because my program was running overnight.

The next thing that I notice is that the game didn’t let me play, just watch, and that the code that Windows says let’s me create my own game returns lots of errors that I don’t find unexpected.

Fabscinating.

Ah. Was in wrong directory. It must’ve looking for the things that it could not find, hence returned errors.

Next: It’s almost too simple. I like separating my statements with parentheses and structuring my programs. (It makes debugging so much easier, visually, too.)