A disturbing new trend?
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Depends on how important the charity you're sponsoring is to you. Apparently it can be done in less than 9 days in a wheelchair, so you'd only have to take one week of work off. :laugh:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Dan, I said
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You can probably go from Land's End to John O'Groats on a unicycle.
I can't even ride one. Let me know when you're going, I'll chip in some sponsorship!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Dan, I said
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You can probably go from Land's End to John O'Groats on a unicycle.
I can't even ride one. Let me know when you're going, I'll chip in some sponsorship!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
If you can find me a 50k sponsorship I'll learn to ride and start on the 32nd of Nevember. :doh:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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If you can find me a 50k sponsorship I'll learn to ride and start on the 32nd of Nevember. :doh:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
If I could find a 50k sponsorship I'd learn to ride one myself.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
When I first learned BASIC in the '80s, the only structure available was the array,
Then C introduced the
struct. Then C++ decidedstructshould have methods, and called it aclassand added all sorts of other artifacts (inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation.) Then came along relational databases, and we were introduced in C# to a newfangled way of working with structures, theDataTable,DataViewandDataSet, but those caused impedence mismatches so a new artifact was born, the ORM. Then the jar-heads decided to inflict themselves on the process because this was all too complicated and created JSON, a string "structure" that took us back to the BASIC 80's of untyped data and structure encoded in the string itself. Simultaneously, the "kids" (who were not even a glimmer in the eyes of their parents in the 80's) decided that relational databases were bad and gave us NoSQL, which, guess what, uses JSON, is document oriented and requires client-side callbacks to "join" data across documents. And this is called progress. MarcImperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Higher Order Programming
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"Then the jar-heads decided to..." This is the first I've heard of the involvement of the U.S. Marines in programming lore, and I must say, I'm skeptical. Weren't they too busy in the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli to be flipping bits and decoding bytes and such?
B. Clay Shannon wrote:
This is the first I've heard of the involvement of the U.S. Marines in programming lore,
I know, it's a bad pun on my part of Java libraries known as JAR. :) Marc
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"Then the jar-heads decided to..." This is the first I've heard of the involvement of the U.S. Marines in programming lore, and I must say, I'm skeptical. Weren't they too busy in the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli to be flipping bits and decoding bytes and such?
B. Clay Shannon wrote:
This is the first I've heard of the involvement of the U.S. Marines in programming lore, and I must say, I'm skeptical. Weren't they too busy in the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli to be flipping bits and decoding bytes and such?
My boss learned to program in the Marines in the early 90's- using Ada no less.
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"Then the jar-heads decided to..." This is the first I've heard of the involvement of the U.S. Marines in programming lore, and I must say, I'm skeptical. Weren't they too busy in the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli to be flipping bits and decoding bytes and such?
The U.S. Marines are part of the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy gave us Admiral Grace Hopper. Admiral Grace Hopper gave us COBOL. :-\
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Ah, the good old days... I was early enough not to taught that the string is a data type, but that it's an array (which it still is, but no-one bothers to try to get that into their heads any more), and I've twice seen people reinventing the string by creating an array of characters that can be truncated, searched through, etc. And if I had a penny for every vacant stare I've seen when linked lists were mentioned... * * I could probably buy a Mars bar, but I'd rather let everyone's imagination exaggerate it for me
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
it's an array (which it still is, but no-one bothers to try to get that into their heads
Oh, you mean they who do
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
When I first learned BASIC in the '80s, the only structure available was the array,
Then C introduced the
struct. Then C++ decidedstructshould have methods, and called it aclassand added all sorts of other artifacts (inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation.) Then came along relational databases, and we were introduced in C# to a newfangled way of working with structures, theDataTable,DataViewandDataSet, but those caused impedence mismatches so a new artifact was born, the ORM. Then the jar-heads decided to inflict themselves on the process because this was all too complicated and created JSON, a string "structure" that took us back to the BASIC 80's of untyped data and structure encoded in the string itself. Simultaneously, the "kids" (who were not even a glimmer in the eyes of their parents in the 80's) decided that relational databases were bad and gave us NoSQL, which, guess what, uses JSON, is document oriented and requires client-side callbacks to "join" data across documents. And this is called progress. MarcImperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Higher Order Programming
And don't forget how hard we all worked to get rid of the "Mainframe+dumb terminal" structure and introduce distributed, networked, intelligent workstations instead. Now they push the Cloud: centralized data and processing again, but with your data controlled and protected by the lowest bidder... :doh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
When I first learned BASIC in the '80s, the only structure available was the array,
Then C introduced the
struct. Then C++ decidedstructshould have methods, and called it aclassand added all sorts of other artifacts (inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation.) Then came along relational databases, and we were introduced in C# to a newfangled way of working with structures, theDataTable,DataViewandDataSet, but those caused impedence mismatches so a new artifact was born, the ORM. Then the jar-heads decided to inflict themselves on the process because this was all too complicated and created JSON, a string "structure" that took us back to the BASIC 80's of untyped data and structure encoded in the string itself. Simultaneously, the "kids" (who were not even a glimmer in the eyes of their parents in the 80's) decided that relational databases were bad and gave us NoSQL, which, guess what, uses JSON, is document oriented and requires client-side callbacks to "join" data across documents. And this is called progress. MarcImperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Higher Order Programming
I never understood why to allow C++ records to use methods, or act like classes. It's confusing. I now that those methods are used as constructors or to assign values. Sometimes, developers need to work with both, structs like "Pure C", and "C++" classes. Usually when they need to interact a Object Oriented Application, or, with large massive data, or with low level O.S. data that is not Object Oriented, or just a legacy library. When I require to use both "struct (s)" and "class (es)", I avoid adding methods to "structs". Just my 2 cents.
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When I first learned BASIC in the '80s, the only structure available was the array, so we had to use that and build up more complex structures, but that's just not necessary with C#, OOP, and Collections. So I am saddened to these posts from the last few days: "Int32[] playerNumbers, String[] playerLastName, Int32[] playerPoints" -- Arrays how to delete multiple entries[^] "Int32[] playerNumbers, ref Int32 playerCount, String[] playerLastName, Int32[] playerPoints" -- Cannot convert type int[] to int[^] "Int32[] playerNumbers, ref Int32 playerCount, String[] playerLastName, Int32[] playerPoints" -- delete method not deleting[^] "Array carPark[10][2];" -- What Is Wrong With The Code And Why Doesnt It Run When I Try To Run It In C#[^] Those first two are the same member, the third probably is as well. The fourth is at least using a two-dimensional array, but he obviously copied it from somewhere and has no idea what it is. Oh, sweet Bob, they keep coming... "public string[][] Select(string query)" -- How to return array or list 2 dimensional from SQL Query[^] WTF!? "ProcessDelete(Int32[] playerNumbers, ref Int32 playerCount, String[] playerLastName, Int32[] playerPoints )"
It's worse than the '80s. Pascal and C had complex types at the end of the '60s. Even Fortran had a complex type (a pair of integers) in 1957...
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
When I first learned BASIC in the '80s, the only structure available was the array,
Then C introduced the
struct. Then C++ decidedstructshould have methods, and called it aclassand added all sorts of other artifacts (inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation.) Then came along relational databases, and we were introduced in C# to a newfangled way of working with structures, theDataTable,DataViewandDataSet, but those caused impedence mismatches so a new artifact was born, the ORM. Then the jar-heads decided to inflict themselves on the process because this was all too complicated and created JSON, a string "structure" that took us back to the BASIC 80's of untyped data and structure encoded in the string itself. Simultaneously, the "kids" (who were not even a glimmer in the eyes of their parents in the 80's) decided that relational databases were bad and gave us NoSQL, which, guess what, uses JSON, is document oriented and requires client-side callbacks to "join" data across documents. And this is called progress. MarcImperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Higher Order Programming
JSON is more lightweight as opposed to XML (no tags required - but does imply foreknowledge of the data formatting). As well - you don't have to worry about malformed tags et al. This is particularly important when trying to reduce traffic on the wire... XML is "pretty", but can be a pig on the wire.
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JSON is more lightweight as opposed to XML (no tags required - but does imply foreknowledge of the data formatting). As well - you don't have to worry about malformed tags et al. This is particularly important when trying to reduce traffic on the wire... XML is "pretty", but can be a pig on the wire.
Rene Pilon wrote:
XML is "pretty", but can be a pig on the wire.
True, but the fact that we have to serialize data to in JSON / XML is absurd to begin with, and is a "workaround technology" to deal with doing something that HTTP was never originally intended to do. JSON is simply a bandaid on a corpse that refuses to die, and yet it has also become a way to animate other monsters. Marc
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When I first learned BASIC in the '80s, the only structure available was the array, so we had to use that and build up more complex structures, but that's just not necessary with C#, OOP, and Collections. So I am saddened to these posts from the last few days: "Int32[] playerNumbers, String[] playerLastName, Int32[] playerPoints" -- Arrays how to delete multiple entries[^] "Int32[] playerNumbers, ref Int32 playerCount, String[] playerLastName, Int32[] playerPoints" -- Cannot convert type int[] to int[^] "Int32[] playerNumbers, ref Int32 playerCount, String[] playerLastName, Int32[] playerPoints" -- delete method not deleting[^] "Array carPark[10][2];" -- What Is Wrong With The Code And Why Doesnt It Run When I Try To Run It In C#[^] Those first two are the same member, the third probably is as well. The fourth is at least using a two-dimensional array, but he obviously copied it from somewhere and has no idea what it is. Oh, sweet Bob, they keep coming... "public string[][] Select(string query)" -- How to return array or list 2 dimensional from SQL Query[^] WTF!? "ProcessDelete(Int32[] playerNumbers, ref Int32 playerCount, String[] playerLastName, Int32[] playerPoints )"
The multiple arrays design isn't really needed much anymore, but similar issues do occasionally crop up from time to time in the real world. I'd rather see students learn how to handle those issues on assigned toy problems than in real world code. I'd like to believe they just haven't been educated in OOP very well yet, which given that it is early in the school year, may well be possible. Even the does-not-compile code is a typical student blunder, I used to see several similar problems every semester when I use to work at the school computing center. Kudos to this student since they're well on their way to having a clue -- they're getting to it early, instead of waiting till the end of the class, which is usually when we'd get students that lost.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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It is a bit of both. There are teachers who can't teach, because they are so busy trying to keep up their "no child left behind" status or simply are collecting a paycheck. There are students who are more concerned with facebook, twitter, or whatever than with the educational system. Then there are school which lack funding to update to the best teaching methods.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
When I first learned BASIC in the '80s, the only structure available was the array,
Then C introduced the
struct. Then C++ decidedstructshould have methods, and called it aclassand added all sorts of other artifacts (inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation.) Then came along relational databases, and we were introduced in C# to a newfangled way of working with structures, theDataTable,DataViewandDataSet, but those caused impedence mismatches so a new artifact was born, the ORM. Then the jar-heads decided to inflict themselves on the process because this was all too complicated and created JSON, a string "structure" that took us back to the BASIC 80's of untyped data and structure encoded in the string itself. Simultaneously, the "kids" (who were not even a glimmer in the eyes of their parents in the 80's) decided that relational databases were bad and gave us NoSQL, which, guess what, uses JSON, is document oriented and requires client-side callbacks to "join" data across documents. And this is called progress. MarcImperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Higher Order Programming
Zackly! Long live SQL Server! :)
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Hey now, RPG was the bomb compared to Assembler. I loved the AS/400
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
oh Im not dissing it - if its all you have, then you just use it (and ILD-RPG 400 was a different animal) - I used to have RPG modules calling all sorts of system routines - loved it
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I've never "played" with RPG (unless we're talking Doom!), but I've had my time with AS400 "screen scrapes".
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
heh - I love the way people say 'this is right, wrong, do it this way' but at the end of the day, if that's the only way you can make it happen, well ... so good on you for 'screen scrapes' 'Mr Pragmatic'
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The U.S. Marines are part of the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy gave us Admiral Grace Hopper. Admiral Grace Hopper gave us COBOL. :-\
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COBOL's a pleasure compared to RPG !!! (IBM AS/400 for example)
