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Getting Back to Basics!

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  • G glennPattonWork3

    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! :)

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    PIEBALDconsult
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    glennPattonWork3 wrote:

    Power shell

    PTUI.

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    • R RickZeeland

      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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      glennPattonWork3
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      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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      • C CPallini

        Notepad++ is a luxury editor. You should use vi instead. :laugh:

        "In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto

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        Mircea Neacsu
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        CPallini wrote:

        You should use vi ed instead.

        FTFY :laugh:

        Mircea

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        • G glennPattonWork3

          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!

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          glennPattonWork3 wrote:

          one the last old school programmers

          Me too. Keepin' it real. No Visual Studio on OpenVMS.

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          • R RickZeeland

            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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            CPallini
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            RickZeeland wrote:

            Pascal scripting

            Toxic. I feel your pain.

            "In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto

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            • G glennPattonWork3

              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:

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              Gunnar Bakkene
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              Good for you my friend :) :)

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              • M Mircea Neacsu

                CPallini wrote:

                You should use vi ed instead.

                FTFY :laugh:

                Mircea

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                jeron1
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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

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                • M Mircea Neacsu

                  CPallini wrote:

                  You should use vi ed instead.

                  FTFY :laugh:

                  Mircea

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                  jsc42
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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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                  • J jeron1

                    :-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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                    Mircea Neacsu
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                    Congrats, you are Yorkshireman #1 :D

                    Mircea

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                    • J jsc42

                      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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                      Mircea Neacsu
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                      Well done! You are Yorkshireman #2. Still waiting for the next two :D

                      Mircea

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                      • C CPallini

                        Notepad++ is a luxury editor. You should use vi instead. :laugh:

                        "In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto

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                        obermd
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                        He's working in a Microsoft environment - he needs to use Edlin.

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                        • C CPallini

                          RickZeeland wrote:

                          Pascal scripting

                          Toxic. I feel your pain.

                          "In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto

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                          glennPattonWork3
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                          Dear :bob: there's a script version?

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                          • G glennPattonWork3

                            Dear :bob: there's a script version?

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                            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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                            • J jsc42

                              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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                              jsc42 wrote:

                              got it after I used to make my own by cutting strips of paper and using different size knitting needles

                              Probably the last time someone saw an update that actually really solved a problem.

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                              • M Mircea Neacsu

                                Well done! You are Yorkshireman #2. Still waiting for the next two :D

                                Mircea

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                                Daniel Pfeffer
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                                Obligatory [xkcd: Real Programmers](https://xkcd.com/378/) Am I Yorkshiremen Nos. 3 and 4? :)

                                Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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                                • M Mircea Neacsu

                                  Well done! You are Yorkshireman #2. Still waiting for the next two :D

                                  Mircea

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                                  jsc42
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                                  Actually, it is true! That is really how I wrote my first program.

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                                    Actually, it is true! That is really how I wrote my first program.

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                                    Mircea Neacsu
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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

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