Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. The Lounge
  3. Programming's Foul Language

Programming's Foul Language

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The Lounge
tutorialquestion
111 Posts 61 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • T Todd Smith

    What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

    Todd Smith

    K Offline
    K Offline
    Kr0d
    wrote on last edited by
    #46

    COM and Interop

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • T Todd Smith

      What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

      Todd Smith

      J Offline
      J Offline
      JasonPSage
      wrote on last edited by
      #47

      like the word gay has lost it's original meaning - a shame it is... so to is the word "net" ... now when I hear "net" or "dot net" I shrudder

      Know way too many languages... master of none!

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • R Rob Graham

        Next you'll be wanting to drop the semicolon and case sensitivity.

        Y Offline
        Y Offline
        Yortw
        wrote on last edited by
        #48

        Awesome ! At least dropping the case sensitivity... I'm kinda used to the semi-colon now ;P

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

          So I guess at CP does not ask programmers to write documents. Are you hiring? :)

          M Offline
          M Offline
          Mark_Wallace
          wrote on last edited by
          #49

          Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

          So I guess at CP does not ask programmers to write documents.

          Nobody should ask programmers to write documents. Documents written by programmers are the bane of my existence.

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

            Throws, as in the Java notation :thumbsdown:

            If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Project: Hospital Automation, final stage Learning: Image analysis, LINQ Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?

            D Offline
            D Offline
            dmitri_sps
            wrote on last edited by
            #50

            Kidding ? :omg: Coding without it is like using FORTRAN: do not catch anything, or enclose all code in try/catch, just in case ;P

            E 1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • T Todd Smith

              What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

              Todd Smith

              K Offline
              K Offline
              keozcigisoft
              wrote on last edited by
              #51

              Java, COM, COM+, Interpreted languages, SOA

              1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • P Pete OHanlon

                IUnkown was fine - it was IQueryInterface that introduced all the problems. ;P

                "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

                J Offline
                J Offline
                Jorgen Sigvardsson
                wrote on last edited by
                #52

                QueryInterface() was a part of IUnknown... ;P

                -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

                1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • R Robert Surtees

                  SIGSEGV

                  J Offline
                  J Offline
                  Jorgen Sigvardsson
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #53

                  SIGBUS wasn't so hot either.

                  -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • T Todd Smith

                    What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

                    Todd Smith

                    B Offline
                    B Offline
                    Brady Kelly
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #54

                    StartDate nvarchar(20) default ''

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • P Pete OHanlon

                      Actually, I'd rather like the with statement as well.

                      "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                      As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                      My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

                      B Offline
                      B Offline
                      Brady Kelly
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #55

                      I got over that very quickly and now can't figure why people miss it. Just use a short named local.

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • P Pete OHanlon

                        Parts of it - you can't do method invocation with it.

                        "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                        As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                        My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

                        B Offline
                        B Offline
                        Brady Kelly
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #56

                        You can use an initialiser for your Nodes collection as well.

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        0
                        • P PIEBALDconsult

                          Extension Method.

                          B Offline
                          B Offline
                          Brady Kelly
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #57

                          Are you mad Sir?

                          P 1 Reply Last reply
                          0
                          • C Chris Maunder

                            I mean - it's a pretty awful thing to wish upon a developer...

                            cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

                            B Offline
                            B Offline
                            Brady Kelly
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #58

                            I like writing documents. :)

                            D D 2 Replies Last reply
                            0
                            • B Brady Kelly

                              Are you mad Sir?

                              P Offline
                              P Offline
                              PIEBALDconsult
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #59

                              (There was supposed to be some sexual connotation in there. :~ ) But I do dislike the prolific use of the things.

                              B 1 Reply Last reply
                              0
                              • T Todd Smith

                                What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

                                Todd Smith

                                D Offline
                                D Offline
                                dazfuller
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #60

                                Anything where there is a comment reading something like

                                // This is a temporary fix, remove as soon as possible

                                But it's still in there 3 years later!

                                1 Reply Last reply
                                0
                                • I Ian Shlasko

                                  Drop the semi-colon? And be forced _ to resort to VB's _ horrible style of _ line continuations!?!? No thanks. Though the case sensitivity... I wouldn't have to deal with code where people name the private variables the same as the exposed properties, with just case differences... Or better yet, gems like:

                                  int num = Num + NUM;

                                  Thankfully, I've never actually seen a line that bad, but imagine a program written like that... There's something you can't do in VB.

                                  Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Developer, Author (Guardians of Xen)

                                  C Offline
                                  C Offline
                                  codemunkeh
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #61

                                  You so could write it like that in VB. But it would be tantamount to num *= 2 err I mean num = num * 2 Curses to VB and it's lack of shorthand arithmetic operators!


                                  Ninja (the Nerd)
                                  Confused? You will be...

                                  D 1 Reply Last reply
                                  0
                                  • P PIEBALDconsult

                                    (There was supposed to be some sexual connotation in there. :~ ) But I do dislike the prolific use of the things.

                                    B Offline
                                    B Offline
                                    Brady Kelly
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #62

                                    Prolific maybe, but between them and partial classes, I get quite extended.

                                    P 1 Reply Last reply
                                    0
                                    • T Todd Smith

                                      What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

                                      Todd Smith

                                      R Offline
                                      R Offline
                                      reshi999
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #63

                                      Interoperability

                                      1 Reply Last reply
                                      0
                                      • T Todd Smith

                                        What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

                                        Todd Smith

                                        I Offline
                                        I Offline
                                        ian__lindsay 0
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #64

                                        Showing my age here: - anything in setjmp.h - ie setjmp, longjmp, etc basically a goto on steroids! - VARIANT_BOOL .... why oh why is VARIANT_TRUE -1 not 1 which is what TRUE is defined as, source of much pain in the past - oh and anything COM related actually! - MFC (need I say more...)

                                        1 Reply Last reply
                                        0
                                        • C codemunkeh

                                          You so could write it like that in VB. But it would be tantamount to num *= 2 err I mean num = num * 2 Curses to VB and it's lack of shorthand arithmetic operators!


                                          Ninja (the Nerd)
                                          Confused? You will be...

                                          D Offline
                                          D Offline
                                          dawmail333
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #65

                                          If you actually bothered to check, VB.Net HAS had that shorthand since .Net 1.1. Check your facts mate! And he was talking about the case sensitivity in C# (my main gripe with it): so that num <> Num <> NUM, so that num = Num + NUM is NOT num *= 2

                                          C 1 Reply Last reply
                                          0
                                          Reply
                                          • Reply as topic
                                          Log in to reply
                                          • Oldest to Newest
                                          • Newest to Oldest
                                          • Most Votes


                                          • Login

                                          • Don't have an account? Register

                                          • Login or register to search.
                                          • First post
                                            Last post
                                          0
                                          • Categories
                                          • Recent
                                          • Tags
                                          • Popular
                                          • World
                                          • Users
                                          • Groups