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Happy World Turtle Day! One of my favourite turtle-releated software development things is that Firefox console will show a little turtle icon on slow requests. Picture also related. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by umbraroze@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Also shout out to all shell programmers and turtle graphicians and turtle roboticians! Turtles are really awesome, they have shell access! And won't be rushing to push anything on production too fast either.

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[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago

If you like turtles and programming, you might enjoy hearing about LOGO.
Back in the day, that was the first programming language I was taught. Years and years before I'd learn C or ASM.
You'd give instructions to a "turtle", moving it about the screen, drawing as it did so. It was a magical experience for 9yo me.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

I did something very similar with python's import turtle

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you! I had been picking my memory for this for so long. We too were taught LOGO in school in the early 2000s. I had forgotten the name, I found kturtle after searching about but couldn't recall what the original program was called.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I was taught it around 1988, most likely on a Thomson MO5 ? Or maybe it was a TO9. It was a while ago :,) I just remember the fascination watching the little pixels color themselves and experimenting with the instructions to see what we could come up with.

[-] __init__@programming.dev 9 points 7 months ago

Oh weird I thought that icon was just for highlighting requests to my backend

[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well aren't the requests to backend by definition slow? Actually TCP protocol is pretty much turtle as opposed to UDP's hare: slow, but it gets you there.

Edut: was drunk here, was very spitballin' too