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  • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

    Matrix is your company?

    “Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support

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    Ravi Bhavnani
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    Yes. /ravi

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    • CPalliniC CPallini

      Well I wrote "hello world" in COBOL. :-D

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      Anything written in COBOL counts!

      “Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support

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      • CPalliniC CPallini

        Well I wrote "hello world" in COBOL. :-D

        If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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        CPallini wrote:

        Well I wrote "hello world" in COBOL.

        Mmm... COBOL! :cool:

        000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
        000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
        000300
        000400*
        000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
        000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
        000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
        000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
        000900
        001000 DATA DIVISION.
        001100 FILE SECTION.
        001200
        100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
        100100
        100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
        100300 BEGIN.
        100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
        100500 DISPLAY "Hello world!" LINE 15 POSITION 10.
        100600 STOP RUN.
        100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
        100800 EXIT.

        /ravi

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        • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

          What is the largest program you have ever developed entirely by yourself? You were handed a specs document and you did the technical design, all the coding and testing until the application was complete and delivered?

          “Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support

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          Chris Losinger
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          according to this tool[^], my largest[^] currently comes in at 337K lines of code.

          image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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          • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

            What is the largest program you have ever developed entirely by yourself? You were handed a specs document and you did the technical design, all the coding and testing until the application was complete and delivered?

            “Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support

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            I was working for a mega company and there was a program that interfaced with a GPX, it was written in C and I was given the task of upgrading it. It wasn't documented, commented and no one knew anything about it other than it worked. I had just finished developing a base class lib for C++ so I convinced them to let me rewrite in C++. To this day it is still in production...I finished it in 1995. It handles a call center with 150 agents (at the time) and takes an average of 3000 calls a day. Mike

            Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin

            Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^]

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            • R Ravi Bhavnani

              CPallini wrote:

              Well I wrote "hello world" in COBOL.

              Mmm... COBOL! :cool:

              000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
              000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
              000300
              000400*
              000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
              000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
              000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
              000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
              000900
              001000 DATA DIVISION.
              001100 FILE SECTION.
              001200
              100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
              100100
              100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
              100300 BEGIN.
              100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
              100500 DISPLAY "Hello world!" LINE 15 POSITION 10.
              100600 STOP RUN.
              100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
              100800 EXIT.

              /ravi

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              Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

              000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD. 000300 000400* 000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION. 000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL. 000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL. 000900 001000 DATA DIVISION. 001100 FILE SECTION. 001200 100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION. 100100 100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION. 100300 BEGIN. 100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS. 100500 DISPLAY "Hello world!" LINE 15 POSITION 10. 100600 STOP RUN. 100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT. 100800 EXIT.

              /ravi? Mmm....http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/cobol/hworld.html[^] :-D Happy new year! :rose:

              If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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              • CPalliniC CPallini

                Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD. 000300 000400* 000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION. 000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL. 000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL. 000900 001000 DATA DIVISION. 001100 FILE SECTION. 001200 100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION. 100100 100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION. 100300 BEGIN. 100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS. 100500 DISPLAY "Hello world!" LINE 15 POSITION 10. 100600 STOP RUN. 100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT. 100800 EXIT.

                /ravi? Mmm....http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/cobol/hworld.html[^] :-D Happy new year! :rose:

                If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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                Damn, I thought I was the only one who knew about Google. :( Happy new year to you too! /ravi

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                • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

                  That's amazing! Can you say what it did?

                  “Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support

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                  Does it really matter? It involved animal genetics.

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                  • R Ravi Bhavnani

                    Damn, I thought I was the only one who knew about Google. :( Happy new year to you too! /ravi

                    This is your brain on Celcius Home | Music | Articles | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                    Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                    I thought I was the only one who knew about Google.

                    Google? What's that? :rolleyes:

                    "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

                    modified on Monday, December 31, 2007 6:48:27 PM

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                      Does it really matter? It involved animal genetics.

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                      I don't mean to pry. The reason I asked is that I'm considering writing a very large program on my own, and I only wanted to get a sense of the complexity that other people had tackled on their own.

                      “Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support

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                      • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

                        What is the largest program you have ever developed entirely by yourself? You were handed a specs document and you did the technical design, all the coding and testing until the application was complete and delivered?

                        “Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support

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                        In terms of lines of code, was probably a sorting program I had to write for an assembly language class years ago. It was in the neighborhood of about 5,000 lines in the file. Could have been double the length, but I did a self-modifying code trick to trim it down a bit for ascending sorting and descending sorting. But as far as real-world stuff, I really don't pay much attention anymore to the size of the program. As long as it meets client requirements and works as they expect, that is all that really matters.

                        "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                        • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                          I was working for a mega company and there was a program that interfaced with a GPX, it was written in C and I was given the task of upgrading it. It wasn't documented, commented and no one knew anything about it other than it worked. I had just finished developing a base class lib for C++ so I convinced them to let me rewrite in C++. To this day it is still in production...I finished it in 1995. It handles a call center with 150 agents (at the time) and takes an average of 3000 calls a day. Mike

                          Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin

                          Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^]

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                          Mike Hankey wrote:

                          It wasn't documented, commented and no one knew anything

                          Oh boy :rolleyes:

                          "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                            Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                            I thought I was the only one who knew about Google.

                            Google? What's that? :rolleyes:

                            "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

                            modified on Monday, December 31, 2007 6:48:27 PM

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                            Paul Conrad wrote:

                            Google? What's that?

                            Apparently it's a website that's supposed to help you find stuff. So I typed in "Where are my gloves?" but it was of no help whatsoever. :( /ravi

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                              Paul Conrad wrote:

                              Google? What's that?

                              Apparently it's a website that's supposed to help you find stuff. So I typed in "Where are my gloves?" but it was of no help whatsoever. :( /ravi

                              This is your brain on Celcius Home | Music | Articles | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                              For some reason the joke icon isn't working. ( It is something with FF, because IE7 it's fine ).

                              Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                              So I typed in "Where are my gloves?" but it was of no help whatsoever.

                              :laugh:

                              "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                Mike Hankey wrote:

                                It wasn't documented, commented and no one knew anything

                                Oh boy :rolleyes:

                                "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                Hey Paul, Yeah, it was a lot of work. We'd test it in production at 3AM shift change so towards the end it was all kinds of crazy hours. There was one lady project manager there and she used to tell me "Mike, I don't know what you do its just magic". I just let her keep thinking that! Have a good new year, be safe. Mike

                                Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin

                                Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^]

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                                • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                                  Hey Paul, Yeah, it was a lot of work. We'd test it in production at 3AM shift change so towards the end it was all kinds of crazy hours. There was one lady project manager there and she used to tell me "Mike, I don't know what you do its just magic". I just let her keep thinking that! Have a good new year, be safe. Mike

                                  Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin

                                  Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^]

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                                  Mike Hankey wrote:

                                  I just let her keep thinking that!

                                  :laugh:

                                  Mike Hankey wrote:

                                  Have a good new year, be safe.

                                  Same to you and your family :)

                                  "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                    For some reason the joke icon isn't working. ( It is something with FF, because IE7 it's fine ).

                                    Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                                    So I typed in "Where are my gloves?" but it was of no help whatsoever.

                                    :laugh:

                                    "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                    Paul Conrad wrote:

                                    For some reason the joke icon isn't working. ( It is something with FF, because IE7 it's fine ).

                                    FF 2.0.0.11 here, and I see that joke icon just fine. wohooo!! This is my first CP post in 2008. :cool: And totally useless one ;)


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                                      Paul Conrad wrote:

                                      For some reason the joke icon isn't working. ( It is something with FF, because IE7 it's fine ).

                                      FF 2.0.0.11 here, and I see that joke icon just fine. wohooo!! This is my first CP post in 2008. :cool: And totally useless one ;)


                                      [My Blog]
                                      "Visual studio desperately needs some performance improvements. It is sometimes almost as slow as eclipse." - Rüdiger Klaehn
                                      "Real men use mspaint for writing code and notepad for designing graphics." - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

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                                      dnh wrote:

                                      FF 2.0.0.11 here.

                                      Same here. Trying with CPHog turned off. --modified And it works now. :suss:

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                                        Paul Conrad wrote:

                                        For some reason the joke icon isn't working. ( It is something with FF, because IE7 it's fine ).

                                        FF 2.0.0.11 here, and I see that joke icon just fine. wohooo!! This is my first CP post in 2008. :cool: And totally useless one ;)


                                        [My Blog]
                                        "Visual studio desperately needs some performance improvements. It is sometimes almost as slow as eclipse." - Rüdiger Klaehn
                                        "Real men use mspaint for writing code and notepad for designing graphics." - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

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                                        Paul Conrad
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                                        If I modify the post with CPHog turned on, then the joke icon goes away :suss: Maunder was looking into it and I let him know that it must be a CPHog matter. Do you use CPHog?

                                        "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                          If I modify the post with CPHog turned on, then the joke icon goes away :suss: Maunder was looking into it and I let him know that it must be a CPHog matter. Do you use CPHog?

                                          "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                          Paul Conrad wrote:

                                          Do you use CPHog?

                                          Nope. So sorry Shog :)


                                          [My Blog]
                                          "Visual studio desperately needs some performance improvements. It is sometimes almost as slow as eclipse." - Rüdiger Klaehn
                                          "Real men use mspaint for writing code and notepad for designing graphics." - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

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