Getting Back to Basics!
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glennPattonWork3 wrote:
No Intellisense, no way of quickly checking syntax programming like it was meant to be!
I simply can't imagine how I used to do programming without Intellisense. Then again, my office used to have several thick reference books that were always open and printouts of tech sheets on the hardware and microprocessors I was often working with. How things have changed.
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An SVG Analog ClockI think I was one the last old school programmers, C (North C) on an Amiga 500 (2 Disk drives & 512K upgrade!). Once you got to be able to translate the 'almost' UNIX error messages :confused:, I wasn't too bad... Visual Studio and the like made us lazy!
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Hi All, I am having fun (for me) working on developing a temperature monitor for some bits of kit we have that don't have one, Crack the knuckles, Design the PCB & write the code for the PIC in C on Notepad++... No Intellisense, no way of quickly checking syntax programming like it was meant to be! :omg:
After spending loads of time writing an installer in C#, my CEO decided to revert to Inno Setup (Pascal scripting) again ... X|
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Power shell IDE's are for weaklings!:~ Off Topic I have written a test routine for some stepper motors that cause them to play the imperial march! :)
glennPattonWork3 wrote:
Power shell
PTUI.
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After spending loads of time writing an installer in C#, my CEO decided to revert to Inno Setup (Pascal scripting) again ... X|
Twas beaten into me Pascal has no place in industry it compiles to P-Code... fast forward a few years and we have MSIL...
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Notepad++is a luxury editor. You should useviinstead. :laugh:"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto
CPallini wrote:
You should use vi ed instead.
FTFY :laugh:
Mircea
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I think I was one the last old school programmers, C (North C) on an Amiga 500 (2 Disk drives & 512K upgrade!). Once you got to be able to translate the 'almost' UNIX error messages :confused:, I wasn't too bad... Visual Studio and the like made us lazy!
glennPattonWork3 wrote:
one the last old school programmers
Me too. Keepin' it real. No Visual Studio on OpenVMS.
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After spending loads of time writing an installer in C#, my CEO decided to revert to Inno Setup (Pascal scripting) again ... X|
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Hi All, I am having fun (for me) working on developing a temperature monitor for some bits of kit we have that don't have one, Crack the knuckles, Design the PCB & write the code for the PIC in C on Notepad++... No Intellisense, no way of quickly checking syntax programming like it was meant to be! :omg:
Good for you my friend :) :)
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CPallini wrote:
You should use vi ed instead.
FTFY :laugh:
Mircea
:-O I still use ne (Norton editor).
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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CPallini wrote:
You should use vi ed instead.
FTFY :laugh:
Mircea
Mircea Neacsu wrote:
CPallini wrote:You should use vi ed instead. FTFY :laugh:
No, use Punched Cards (without an interpreter) or paper tape. I have an 8-pin paper tape holder complete with a pin for punching the holes individually that you can borrow. I got it after I used to make my own by cutting strips of paper and using different size knitting needles for the data holes and the sprocket holes.
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:-O I still use ne (Norton editor).
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
Congrats, you are Yorkshireman #1 :D
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote:
CPallini wrote:You should use vi ed instead. FTFY :laugh:
No, use Punched Cards (without an interpreter) or paper tape. I have an 8-pin paper tape holder complete with a pin for punching the holes individually that you can borrow. I got it after I used to make my own by cutting strips of paper and using different size knitting needles for the data holes and the sprocket holes.
Well done! You are Yorkshireman #2. Still waiting for the next two :D
Mircea
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Notepad++is a luxury editor. You should useviinstead. :laugh:"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto
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RickZeeland wrote:
Pascal scripting
Toxic. I feel your pain.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto
Dear :bob: there's a script version?
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Dear :bob: there's a script version?
Yes, Inno Setup adds a lightweight Pascal scripting engine to your setup, it is quite good and flexible in fact. But as a C# programmer I find the Pascal syntax awful.
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Mircea Neacsu wrote:
CPallini wrote:You should use vi ed instead. FTFY :laugh:
No, use Punched Cards (without an interpreter) or paper tape. I have an 8-pin paper tape holder complete with a pin for punching the holes individually that you can borrow. I got it after I used to make my own by cutting strips of paper and using different size knitting needles for the data holes and the sprocket holes.
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Well done! You are Yorkshireman #2. Still waiting for the next two :D
Mircea
Obligatory [xkcd: Real Programmers](https://xkcd.com/378/) Am I Yorkshiremen Nos. 3 and 4? :)
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Well done! You are Yorkshireman #2. Still waiting for the next two :D
Mircea
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I didn’t doubt it. My comment just intended to be funny :-D. I built my first punched tape reader from pieces of PCB welded together with solder. It had 9 LEDs and photodiodes for each channel and the sprocket hole was used as clock. You pulled the tape manually through the thing. A beautiful contraption :)
Mircea