Yeah, if it were Raptor Jesus, that would’ve been cool, or an Orbital Frame…but no, I’m referring to something more evil! More sinister! Vile and Satanic! Not a dinosaur either, other adjectives include: “malefic, wicked, depraved, vicious and so on…”, but the one that describes it the best is…dumb. Yes, DUMB:

[Click it for a bigger size of this stupidity]

It’s RAPTOR! An acronym actually, stands for Rapid Algorithmic Prototyping Tool for Ordered Reasoning, clever. BUT! What a horrible thing to use! I know it’s supposed to be used by beginner programmers, so why the hell do experienced, heck, I dare say it, (Por echarme crema a mis tacos) professional programmers, use it? Quoting my teacher:

So you can remember the basic principles of programming and using arrays without those advanced tools you’ve grown so used to.

OK, fine, she has a point, but those wonderful SQL Databases and Queries are what make programming EZ. But I digress, the purpose of this rant is, that I could’ve finished a stupid exercise in 3 minutes in C# instead of using this compiler piece of crud without DDL compatibility, that’s right, I had to use Arrays to save data. Raptor Jesus, do you know how long it took me!? 3 damn hours, THREE.

This thing goes beyond the scopes of practical programming for beginners, it screws data types and you have to write ALL the code, so, something as beautiful as this:

for(int i=0;i<=5;i++)
{
//do something.
}

Will look horribly like this:

[Oh, did I mention you can't use 0 to initialize variables, nor point to arrays with it, I mean, seriously, WTF, those poor Mayans invented the damn number for a reason! And yeah, notice the condition for the Loop. You see it? Compare it with the For's condition if you don't see it, then laugh maniacly]

Anyways, this is a horrible way for n00bs to begin programming, what makes me sad is that this is not an old application! That last version got out on May 18th, 2007. The worst part is, this is what they use to teach programming methods at UACJ. Kill me. You want my suggestion, try coding in C# or C++, even if you are n00b, there are a lot of awesome guides and tutorials, visit MSDN if you are into C# (The future in Windows Programming and ASP.NET), you learn the basics while working with the hard stuff.

So yeah, what a dumb program to use, but it was perfect for a dumb rant heh~ Anyways…