I know this is incredible geeky, but I just had to post this.
Of course, since I am working with Microsoft development languages, I would write it as (much easier):
Update: Thomas Watson pointed out that Ruby is even faster.
Update: And, António takes it further with Python.
Taking the language a little further, in Python it would be:
print 500 * "I will not throw paper air-planes in class."
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Updated :)
Of course, if it were 500 million times instead of just 500, he would still rather write it in C in spite of the extra time it would take him to do so...
Bah! Jason *knows* all those languages, and has deliberately chosen C as:
a) the most verbose, so more likely to satisfy her (is that his teacher or his mother?)
b) the geekiest. Its geekier to write longer code! Really! ;)
(In reality - I wonder what Bill's background is? Would he know about newer languages? :))
In other thoughts - got a link for this? I don't recall this episode and am wondering if it is part of a thread :)
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Despite how much I do not want this to turn into a language fight, I just cant help my self... A Ruby developer would get out of detention even faster:
500.times { puts "I will not throw paper air-planes in class." }