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  • P Paul Watson

    Well at first I thought "maybe I should write the Ff statement in C++ just for all the simple undeducated folk out there who don't understand the beauty of VB", but then I thought "naaaah, let them suffer and wonder". :-D Actually I happen to do way too much JavaScripting so I know all about the phuketing annoying difference between == and =. The number of times I get caught out by that is beyond belief. Do you have any idea why they implemented C++ and Java like that? Why not just = and not ==? Didn't you miss the "end if". Once again VB shows it's beauty. You don't need an End If if it is one one line. i.e.

    If (origin = "southern hemisphere") Then varResult = "joking"

    is the same as

    If (origin = "southern hemisphere") Then
    varResult = "joking"
    End If

    VB is so beautiful and way smarter than "donkey's work" C++. :-D Yeah, I know I set myself up everytime I mention VB or put up VB code, but hey us enlightened folk can take the jeers and jokes as we sit back and let VB do our work for us. ;P regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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    >> Do you have any idea why they implemented C++ and Java like that? 1. assignment is completely different from comparison, 2. a=b evaluates to the value of a after assignment, so you can write funny things like while ( (ch = getch())!=-1) { ... } instead of ch = getch(); while (ch!=-1) { ... ch = getch(); } this is the obvious, final, and ultimate proof that C++ is of course superior to all other languages, including but not limited to programming languages, and all the fuzz is only because some VB mules didn's get it yet. ;P

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    • P Paul Watson

      Oh yes Ravi, you are so right. Really the use of language has just degenerated into a free for all of Orwellian proportions. What can we do about it? How can we educate our fellow inverterbrates as to the benefit of the Queen mums English? How on Earth have we gotten to this terrible state... :laugh: Along with misspellings and bad grammar (especially in user documentation) Japanese and Chinese translations are the absolute best. I love reading the instruction manual for new Korean HiFi products. I can myself laughing. "Do not use hair dryer while asleep" or "Does not work under water" :laugh: I think though that we can give leeway to gramatical use on the Lounge, at least. Otherwise we restrict our god given right to be opiniated and vocal about those opinions. Plus we have quite an international group of people on CP, not all of who have English as their primary language. So some forgiveness must be given (and gotten) to bad English. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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      Ravi Bhavnani
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      > the Queen mums English the Queen mum's English > our god given right to be opiniated our God given right to be opinionated You're having fun at my expense, aren't you? :) /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

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        > the Queen mums English the Queen mum's English > our god given right to be opiniated our God given right to be opinionated You're having fun at my expense, aren't you? :) /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

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        Paul Watson
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        You're having fun at my expense, aren't you? *hangs head in shame* Yes, alas, yes, you have foiled and humbled me. :(( Forgive and forget? It was the end of the day and John had not posted anything worthy of ribbing, your post however just sat up and begged to be ribbed. Actually, to be honest, I get annoyed reading poorly written posts myself. Though that does not mean my posts are written at all well. Double standards, I know :) our God given right to be opinionated Ahhh now, it depends on whether you believe in god or God. Does it not? :-D > the Queen mums English the Queen mum's English You should be an editor or an English teacher. Red ink and all ;) Have a good evening and I was just ribbing you, no harm meant :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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        • R Ravi Bhavnani

          A voice from the past! Hi, Essam! /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

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          Erik Westermann
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          Hey Ravi! How are things? What are you up to these days? Essam __________________________________________________ Author - JScript .NET Programming - Now Available! http://www.designs2solutions.com/jsnetprg

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          • P Paul Watson

            You're having fun at my expense, aren't you? *hangs head in shame* Yes, alas, yes, you have foiled and humbled me. :(( Forgive and forget? It was the end of the day and John had not posted anything worthy of ribbing, your post however just sat up and begged to be ribbed. Actually, to be honest, I get annoyed reading poorly written posts myself. Though that does not mean my posts are written at all well. Double standards, I know :) our God given right to be opinionated Ahhh now, it depends on whether you believe in god or God. Does it not? :-D > the Queen mums English the Queen mum's English You should be an editor or an English teacher. Red ink and all ;) Have a good evening and I was just ribbing you, no harm meant :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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            Ravi Bhavnani
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            > I was just ribbing you, no harm meant I know! I was just being obnoxious and childish. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

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            • C Chris Maunder

              I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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              sAmAnThA
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              Hi CodeProject guys! I'm Samantha... I've been surfing your site since February this year...:) It's really a pretty cool site.... :cool: very informative... Actually, I used to open your site almost everyday just to look for new programming codes and get some tips... :-O I'm working as a Computer Programmer in a cold city....Winnipeg... :-D Chris, Here's a rose :rose: for you :-O ...for a job well done... keep it up! ;) :rose: Samantha :rose:

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              • C Chris Maunder

                I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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                Stephane Routelous
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                Hi, I'm a CAD/CAM software engineer. I'm using CodeProject since the beginning ( Member Since Thursday 6th July, 2000 ) , but the last 2 years, I only used it on work, and because of the cookies ( cookies were disabled in the Cie ), I couln'd use the forums, and couldn't log me in. Today, I'm living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I'm seeking a job in the CAD/CAM industry or 3d software ( if you have one, you can contact me ;-) ). I'm planning to developp a free CAD/CAM Solid Modeler ( http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/exotk ) using OpenCASCADE ( www.opencascade.org / www.opencascade.com ). I'm also planning to post more articles. I already wrote one ( http://www.codeproject.com/splitter/automaticsplitter.asp ). Stephane

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                • E Erik Westermann

                  Hey Ravi! How are things? What are you up to these days? Essam __________________________________________________ Author - JScript .NET Programming - Now Available! http://www.designs2solutions.com/jsnetprg

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                  Ravi Bhavnani
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                  I'm back at a normal job now. 2 years in startup land didn't bring the financial rewards I was expecting :) but the experience was well worth the 16 hour days imho. I'm also playing with some ideas in my spare time - nothing exciting. Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to keep up with the whole .Net thing but hope to catch up at some point! Any idea what Zafir is up to? Is/was he @ Dice? Cheers, /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

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                  • P peterchen

                    >> Do you have any idea why they implemented C++ and Java like that? 1. assignment is completely different from comparison, 2. a=b evaluates to the value of a after assignment, so you can write funny things like while ( (ch = getch())!=-1) { ... } instead of ch = getch(); while (ch!=-1) { ... ch = getch(); } this is the obvious, final, and ultimate proof that C++ is of course superior to all other languages, including but not limited to programming languages, and all the fuzz is only because some VB mules didn's get it yet. ;P

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                    Paul Wolfensberger
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                    Obviously few people here have written any APL code....truely the most elegant language available.

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                    • C Chris Maunder

                      I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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                      L Lynch
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                      Greetings from Ireland, I discovered CodeProject well over a year ago, when I was learning C++. Then the company decided they wanted me to do (yaaawwwwwn) ASP, so I changed job - now I use Delphi :confused:. The articles used to be realy interesting, but I have absolutely no interest in all things .NET. But, the lounge is definitely the place to visit when feeling a little bored/stressed. Laurence We aim to make the complex simple, and the simple idiot-proof; we just don't aim too good.

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                      • P Paul Wolfensberger

                        Obviously few people here have written any APL code....truely the most elegant language available.

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                        I'm unsure which APL you are talking about, I learn't APL (A Programming Language) at age 13, Our teacher liked it because he didn't have to buy many punch cards :-) Later I found learning Assembler Instructions easy compared to APL :-) If it's the same APL you are right it is elegant :-) It is what I would call a write once lingo, You never want to edit/debug it. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies P.S I need beta testers for VMTU.

                        Speed up your internet connection with VMTU

                        Variable Maximum Transfer Unit, or VMTU is an algorithm for negotiating the packet sizes passed from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to your Internet TCP connection. The connection speed does not increase; the throughput of the modem is improved.

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                        • C Chris Maunder

                          I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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                          Paul Barrass
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                          Hi, I've been reading CodeProject for a while but recently discovered the lounge, which just about gets me through a days work. I'm Head of Development at E-creation (web development company) just outside London. I'm now shifting the company to .NET, specifically ASP.NET and C#. Cheers, Paul Barrass

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                          • C Chris Maunder

                            I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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                            Luca Leonardo Scorcia
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                            Hi! I'm Luca from Bari, a really nice place in the south of Italy. I am not really new to CP, since it's nearly a year that I use it... You are great! Now I discovered how funny is reading the Lounge... here there aren't many programmers, or maybe since I'm seventeen many of my friends are not really interested in using the PC for something more than games... :) I'm working on a program to display maths functions and to do a little study upon them - nothing really new and Derive is simply inimitable, but hey I learned a lot writing this program!!! It is called Equation Editor. Although my site is in Italian, this software is available both in Italian and English... maybe you can give it a try, but consider that the online version is nearly half a year old. I don't seem able to finish anything! Every time I reach 90% of development, something forces me to rewrite it from scratch!!! Is this a common issue? Or that's just me being lazy? :) :) :) When I feel too stressed to work on this software, I use eJay to create some dance/techno songs. Nothing really great, but I'm learning... :) Ok I have finished this nonsense message (BTW, my first post)... bye and thanks to all!!! P.S.: Sorry for my English, that's the result of three hours/week of study... :) Luca Leonardo Scorcia, alias The Keejay vrkeejay@hotmail.com http://zip.to/kojak (only in Italian)

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                            • C ColinDavies

                              I'm unsure which APL you are talking about, I learn't APL (A Programming Language) at age 13, Our teacher liked it because he didn't have to buy many punch cards :-) Later I found learning Assembler Instructions easy compared to APL :-) If it's the same APL you are right it is elegant :-) It is what I would call a write once lingo, You never want to edit/debug it. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies P.S I need beta testers for VMTU.

                              Speed up your internet connection with VMTU

                              Variable Maximum Transfer Unit, or VMTU is an algorithm for negotiating the packet sizes passed from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to your Internet TCP connection. The connection speed does not increase; the throughput of the modem is improved.

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                              Jamie Hale
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                              I still have keyboards kicking around with the silly little symbol stickers on the the keys. :P J

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                                I still have keyboards kicking around with the silly little symbol stickers on the the keys. :P J

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                                ColinDavies
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                                Wow I didn't know any of you yougun's knew anything about APL, Let alone used it. I had a job interview years ago, and the interviewer thought I was taking the Piss when I said I had some APL experience. (The Noddy didn't believe the lingo existed. It sure was a great way to learn, but I too would have prefered a keyboard with stickers on it, instead of cards. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies P.S I need beta testers for VMTU.

                                Speed up your internet connection with VMTU

                                Variable Maximum Transfer Unit, or VMTU is an algorithm for negotiating the packet sizes passed from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to your Internet TCP connection. The connection speed does not increase; the throughput of the modem is improved.

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                                • C Chris Maunder

                                  I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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                                  I've been here (CP) around a month, but i'm quite new to the lounge. I'm a 19-year old student from Wales, UK. I've always enjoyed programming and the rewards it brings, much to the amusement of my fellow classmates. Started programming with AMOS on my amiga about 10 years ago. After about a year, i sold it, and didn't program again until around 3 years ago, where Pascal was introduced at college. I got into C++ in my spare time, and have recently warmed to MFC, which i'm really enjoying because it's improving my c++ skills simultaneously. So, hello to anyone reading this. It's a nice little community you've got here. :) --- Simon decided that his 'ironlung' nickname sounded kinda stupid, so he decided to use his real name

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                                  • C Chris Maunder

                                    I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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                                    Christian Graus
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                                    My name is Sven und I am from Sveden. I am making das moovies mit mine friend Inga, fvor ve are very poor. Christian After all, there's nothing wrong with an elite as long as I'm allowed to be part of it!! - Mike Burston Oct 23, 2001

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                                    • C Chris Maunder

                                      I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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                                      Frank Liao
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                                      I've been around CodeProject ever since the fallout of CodeGuru. I'm a 22-year-old engineering student at UCLA (her in the United States) and work as a part-time programmer (C++/MFC/ASP/VBScript) there. I have about 4 more classes to go before I need to jump into the real world and "feel your pain.":) Frank

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                                      • P Paul Watson

                                        You're having fun at my expense, aren't you? *hangs head in shame* Yes, alas, yes, you have foiled and humbled me. :(( Forgive and forget? It was the end of the day and John had not posted anything worthy of ribbing, your post however just sat up and begged to be ribbed. Actually, to be honest, I get annoyed reading poorly written posts myself. Though that does not mean my posts are written at all well. Double standards, I know :) our God given right to be opinionated Ahhh now, it depends on whether you believe in god or God. Does it not? :-D > the Queen mums English the Queen mum's English You should be an editor or an English teacher. Red ink and all ;) Have a good evening and I was just ribbing you, no harm meant :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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                                        Mike Burston
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                                        Ahhh now, it depends on whether you believe in god or God. This is a rhetorical question to trick newbies, right? ----------------------------- The sermon on the mount... Man 1 : Hear that? Blessed are the greek. Man 2 : The greek? Man 1 : Well apparently, he's going to inherit the earth. Man 2 : Did anyone catch his name? ----------------------------- "Happy pooja to all curry munchers!" - Paul Watson Oct 25, 2001

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                                          My name is Sven und I am from Sveden. I am making das moovies mit mine friend Inga, fvor ve are very poor. Christian After all, there's nothing wrong with an elite as long as I'm allowed to be part of it!! - Mike Burston Oct 23, 2001

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                                          Mike Burston
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                                          LOL. Dare I ask, is this a 'speaking in tongues' moment ? ;P ;P ----------------------------- The sermon on the mount... Man 1 : Hear that? Blessed are the greek. Man 2 : The greek? Man 1 : Well apparently, he's going to inherit the earth. Man 2 : Did anyone catch his name? ----------------------------- "Happy pooja to all curry munchers!" - Paul Watson Oct 25, 2001

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