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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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      PIEBALDconsult
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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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        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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                        RickZeeland
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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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