So you don't get it either? You've never played a video game with levels? Or how about the geography test that was posted here recently that had levels? That's what I meant by "level" and I think that's what the article is talking about. I don't know how to explain that any more clearly. I almost feel like I'm talking to a bunch of 3-year-olds here.

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Using a video game analogy and you feel like you are educating a bunch of three year olds? That is one of the funnier things you have written thusfar.

What, you've never played a video game? You must be smart!

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Back when I bought an Apple II+ I bought a 16K language card boosting the total memory to 64k. I used it to learn how to program in the up-and-coming language of the future, Pascal. The Pascal version for the Apple II (licensed by UCSD) compiled to something called p-code that itself had to be interpreted into machine language. It was supposed to be faster than Basic, but I couldn't tell any difference. I wrote a program that worked with the control paddles. It was like "Pong!" but slower. Later I compiled some assembly routines that read the paddles and paddle buttons that were called from within the main program. That speeded it up considerably, IIRC.

Haven't played games much since.

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That's too bad. I've had much more fun than that.

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