asymetric warfare

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:45:56 GMT, Derek Lyons wrote:
(phil hunt) wrote:
The issue is the massive
amount of R&D needed to develop the algorithms the programmers will
implement to analyze the output of the sensor.

Do you know anything about programming? If you did, you'd know that
developing algorithms is what programmers do.

Do *you* know anything about programming?

I've already told you, it's my profession. Now, are you going to
anwser my question: have you every done any programming, and if so,
how much and in what languages?

Failure to answer will be considered as evidence of trolldom.

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ess (phil hunt) wrote:

:On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:45:56 GMT, Derek Lyons wrote:
(phil hunt) wrote:
:The issue is the massive
:amount of R&D needed to develop the algorithms the programmers will
:implement to analyze the output of the sensor.
:
:Do you know anything about programming? If you did, you'd know that
:developing algorithms is what programmers do.
:
:Do *you* know anything about programming?
:
:I've already told you, it's my profession. Now, are you going to
:anwser my question: have you every done any programming, and if so,
:how much and in what languages?

That you ask "in what languages" indeed indicates that you are a
PROGRAMMER (rather than, say, a software or systems engineer) and, as
such, have very little clue about what is being discussed here.
Computer languages are like candy; when you need another one, you just
pluck it out of the bowl and eat it.

How much? I stopped counting a long, long time ago. The system I'm
about to field is something like a quarter of a million lines of code
(yes, I had help) on a Windows box. Also done work on VMS and various
forms of Unix, as well as assorted micro-clones (like OS9) and
embedded stuff. Languages range from assembly through Fortran
(various flavours), Pascal, Ada, C, C++, Visual C++ (which is sort of
like C++, but larded with megaliths of Microsoft Magic Crap), Java.
I've done 'toys' (where 'toy' is a systems smaller than, say, 50k
SLOC) in LISP, Scheme, SNOBOL IV, FORTH, BASIC, Visual Basic (see
Visual C++, above, for relationship to BASIC), Python, Perl. I'm sure
I'm leaving a bunch out that aren't springing to mind right away.

:Failure to answer will be considered as evidence of trolldom.

So, if he fails to answer, you're a troll?

Of course, if he does answer, then I guess that leaves you as merely a
fool.

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