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"It works well enough" (was $640.00 to fill the tanks...)
"Matt Barrow" wrote in news:44f2fec9$0$10298$815e3792
@news.qwest.net: Snipola Real Programmers don't write in Snipola Hmmmm....I guess maybe I might be a real programmer then... I write in XBasic (as in EX-basic) which isn't listed. http://www.maxreason.com/software/xbasic/xbasic.html http://www.xbasic.org/ Brian -- http://www.skywise711.com - Lasers, Seismology, Astronomy, Skepticism Seismic FAQ: http://www.skywise711.com/SeismicFAQ/SeismicFAQ.html Quake "predictions": http://www.skywise711.com/quakes/EQDB/index.html Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? |
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"It works well enough" (was $640.00 to fill the tanks...)
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:49:16 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote: Jose wrote: And something better would be? would have been? C is better than FORTRAN. Maybe something like C would have been developed sooner if FORTRAN compilers didn't get so good. I was expecting that. C has held back software development more than any other language invented. C is what assembly should have been, but it certainly sucks as a "high level" language. As others have already said, C is not a high level language. It is considered primitive from a level standpoint and only a few steps above assembler, which is also what makes it so powerful. C is sometimes described as a "write only" language. Pascal is a high level language, but it was designed as a teaching language, not the working language it turned into. Delphi really gave Pascal some punch. When I worked as a GA I saw some Pascal code written by beginners that I could absolutely not follow, yet the stuff worked. I think about 2.3rds of the source code was camouflage. Assembly language can be written using routines and functions. JSR and return and conditional return statements in the middle of a routine do not make spaghetti code, but lots of goto statements whether to a name or line number do. Matt Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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"It works well enough" (was $640.00 to fill the tanks...)
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:02:39 -0000, Dylan Smith
wrote: On the other hand, I don't think anyone should write C professionally until they've used asm in anger (any asm, it doesn't matter which). Probably a good point... I've done my share of assembly language programming and it was before learning 'C'... Maybe that's why pointers in 'C' never really bothered me... It's good to know how the code and data are going to be laid out in memory... |
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"It works well enough" (was $640.00 to fill the tanks...)
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:06:36 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote: Don't worry, his bark is worse than his bite. :-) Hey, I'm the most well adjusted psychotic sociopath that I know... |
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"It works well enough" (was $640.00 to fill the tanks...)
Skywise wrote:
"Matt Barrow" wrote in news:44f2fec9$0$10298$815e3792 @news.qwest.net: Snipola Real Programmers don't write in Snipola Hmmmm....I guess maybe I might be a real programmer then... I write in XBasic (as in EX-basic) which isn't listed. http://www.maxreason.com/software/xbasic/xbasic.html http://www.xbasic.org/ Brian I'm an ex-BASIC programmer also! HP BASIC to be specific. Matt |
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