Getting Back to Basics!
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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? :)
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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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
