Programming's Foul Language

[Jorgen Sigvardsson]

SIGBUS wasn't so hot either.

-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

[Brady Kelly]

StartDate nvarchar(20) default ''

[Brady Kelly]

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

[Brady Kelly]

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

[Brady Kelly]

Are you mad Sir?

[Brady Kelly]

I like writing documents. :)

[PIEBALDconsult]

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

[dazfuller]

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!

[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!

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

[Brady Kelly]

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

[reshi999]

Interoperability

[ian__lindsay 0]

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...)

[dawmail333]

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

[codemunkeh]

I could've sworn it didn't have it when I used it in .NET 2, odd.. And I meant VB when I said num *= 2. I was trying to highlight my gripe with my last (apparently inaccurate) experience of VB, how it lacks in things I like using. Sorry if that wasn't clear. Edit: definitely my bad. I had somehow confused *= with ++. I tried writing some VB about 5 minutes ago and automatically put ; at the end of every line. :doh:

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

modified on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6:23 AM

[BillWoodruff]

"Specification." best, Bill

"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844

[CodeGimp]

Maximisation of ROI through n-tier component technology throughout the distributed heterogenous client-server environment

[Lucien0]

Todd Smith wrote:

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

Code without comments. I think it's synonymous with talking at you, rather than with you. Rude. Leaving compiler warnings in a build. Which speaks so much about the character of the programmer. Lazy, like koalas. Luc

[Seth Rowe]

Ian Shlasko wrote:

Drop the semi-colon? And be forced _ to resort to VB's _ horrible style of _ line continuations!?!?

Of course with the release of Visual Studio 2010, VB will be getting implicit line continuation for most areas :-) Thanks, Seth Rowe [MVP]

[Daniel Vaughan]

Me too. When they are used properly.

Daniel Vaughan Blog: DanielVaughan.Orpius.com

[Fabio Franco]

I agree with that, despite knowing that at Assembly level, that's exactly what your code will do.