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Offline DrDnar

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Re: FAIL from my school
« Reply #30 on: September 15, 2011, 08:22:52 pm »
My high school still uses QuickBASIC (last I checked, anyway) for their intro to programming course. They somehow gutted the command prompt so that any command entered wouldn't actually execute, and blocked batch files, but there's a fun QB program you can write . . .
Code: [Select]
DO
    INPUT FOO$
    SHELL FOO$
LOOP

(They also didn't block Windows Script Host scripts.)
"No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defense, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them. . . . Yes, [] the tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price."—Plato's The Republic, circa 380 BC