The Rat Bastards Strike Back!

For MFP (Modern Functional Programming), we were allowed to choose our own projects…and more importantly, our own groups. Of course, the Rat Bastards became another (to be rivaled) group in a software development type of course. For those of you unfamiliar with the Rat Bastard Legacy, it goes back to the Spring of 2002 (last year) during Software Design & Development, when a group of students calling themselves the Rat Bastards (myself included) designed the ‘Rat Bastard Mailer’ — an E-Mail program similar to Outlook or Mozilla/Netscape. These people had much fun…and probably too much fun in their endeavor. And they also had a kick-ass logo.

Well, three of the original Rat Bastards and one Honorary Rat Bastard (he came with us to the bar one night and was also in the class) merged in MFP to form ‘The Rat Bastards Strike Back’ — a group modeling their logo after the famed ‘Empire Strikes Back’ movie. This time — the goal is to build a functional calculator. What will it do? Well, all of your typical calculator functions, plus the ability to essentially be able to set as imput a string of functions (similar to Mathematica — which is a really powerful calculator we won’t rival).

More to come…but once again, long live the Rat Bastards!

This post was upgraded to the MZ Online Blog on 8/20/07