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🖙Achtung Spinne!

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I was reading some German Pascal books from the 80s on Internet Archive, as one does, and i found one that has very crude but very charming images.

For example, there's some code in the book to draw a sign forbidding entry of pests ("Kein Zutritt für Ungeziefer") and one warning of spiders ("Achtung Spinne!")

Black-and-white line drawing of a sign with a little bug next to a triangle-shaped sign with a line drawing of a spider, hanging by a thread of spiderweb

And here's an image with just a fuckton of ants

Black-and-white line drawing of many many tiny little ants, which are also line drawings

The little icons for different callouts seem to be produced in a similar style, if not literally using Turbo Pascal on Windows:

Four icons with captions, one showing a squat cylinder, probably a pot on a stove. Next is a line drawing of a plate, a fork, a spoon, and a knife, next to plate. A third is a person raising a finger behind a white rectangle. And the last is a cylinder with dots coming out of it, presumably a spice shaker

Labels read source code and description, usage example, additional notes, and variation suggestions. They also have the labels: "How will this be cooked?", "How will this be served?", "Warning!", and "How would this be seasoned?"

The cover is also great, albeit not one produced with the techniques inside the book:

Book titled "100 Grafik Rezepte für Turbo Pascal unter Windows" with a 3D image of some shapes in a pot with a dot with a long tail. "Title reading 100 Grpahics Recipes for Turbo Pascal on Windows" with "Programmer tips with extras for beginners and the experienced" as a message in the corner.

207 words; 8 sentences
Stats for nerds
  • 207 words
  • 8 sentences
  • 25.88 words/sentence
  • Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 10.56 (grade: 11)
  • Dale-Chall Reading Ease: 10.92 (grades: college_graduate)

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