There is a program in my C# book that uses the elseif statement. I'd like to do it in Delphi but I'm doubting if Delphi has that statement. https://xender.vip/[^]

Hi Chris, thank you for your response. The list looks quite exhaustive to me, maybe the only thing that one could add is "languages for web backend i.e. Ruby, Python, PHP" (I'm not sure about the proper name but I hope you get my point) I'm not a big fan of those, but I suppose they are still relevant. At least I've noticed a Python question in Javascript forums recently

Thank you very much k5054 for your explanation! :thumbsup:

Gerry Schmitz wrote: better at answering questions than writing about what I don't know. Ahh, if you say so :) I find trying to write about what code does/should do is a valuable experience ... even better, imho, is trying to teach others. I see you like Blaise Pascal: are you familiar with his statement: “Nature is a fearful sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.” (Pensées, 1669). The great Argentinian writer, Jorge Borges, discovered this had been mistranslated from the French as "infinite sphere." cheers, Bill «Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot

Gerry Schmitz wrote: Working on a project I break my work up into small components. Makes everything easier.

Get a contemporary Delphi license, install the IDE on a modern machine, most of the ancient Delphi code will compile just fine in a modern Delphi IDE.

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My apologies: Let me try this again. I'm wondering if there is a way to free my serial port thread after i invoke to my UI thread. Once i Invoke from the Data Received event on the Serial port Thread to a receive function on the UI thread, my switch statement in the receive function may call a function that sends data to the pic program. Now the pic responds immediately but the data doesn't appear cause the invoke method hasn't quite exited yet. any suggestions would be Appreciated.

Nice flame war! :laugh: A nice reminder of the VB shaming that exists here. :( As a solo developer the choice between C# and VB is dependent on one thing only: Which one am I the most productive in? it all boils down to the same MSIL anyway and my clients don't care. Now, back to the VB shaming. (since it's Saturday) It seems that haters will hate. The same old weak arguments regurgitated to prove why their beloved C# is superior and VB is trash and not worthy for serious work...or that programmers who prefer (or are stuck with) VB are inferior and should be scorned and ridiculed. I think as a community, we can do better than to get all evangelical about something so petty. I don't have a dog in this fight...I like them both equally...just a tool to get a job done. "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

My views: Unless it has changed much in the last 10 years since when I went to uni. University Computer Science courses are Academic in nature. 4 week - 12 week code courses that appear to have sprung up in the last decade have a more focus to getting people business ready. Recently sat in on a talk from Code Nation which explained they have "Junior Software developers" not "students" and they have to complete time sheets as the likely hood a number of them will go into contract/agency work which will require that. That so far is not to say University degrees offer something. For me, the basic ground work of maths, algorithms, hardware, history of the field, I think will allow for a greenfield development area versus coding as a job. What I mean by this is look at Car Machanic: Apprentice root: learn in 6 months how to be a car machanic, get a job at a car repairs place, diagnose issues you have not seen before and fix the issue. University root: learn engineering, what a combustion engine is, other types of engines, how to build from scratch, metallurgy. Then get a job a one of the top 10 car companies design and building the next model. The difference there - getting a "day job" (hopefully you like it as well) vs a back to Computer Science/Software Development/Engineering: India invested heavily on coders. Look at what companies have the most software developers, multiple Indian companies, more then Google/Facebook/Microsoft. Similar issue with USA wanting to being factory work back state side. Lack of mid-level workers. To many over educated - degree required posting. The job shortage in the west: I think more on the Coding side not development. These code schools will fill that market. But business needs to realise the University grads will not fill it, so asking for a degree is not helpful.

I do ordering a lot online, however if it s something local I ask to place it in one of the shops nearby, as I prefer to pick it up at the end of the day instead of playing mouse-and-cat with the delivery guy... For instance, two weeks ago (one Thursday), wife's laptop dead... Ordered one online the very same night, picked it up Sunday on way home... "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018

The file name ends ...WTF Kinda says it all....... Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

There is something truly sublime about that code. :)

Member 12974235 wrote: My question is which language and IDE do you think would be easier to get this done? No language at all. There are internet services that already do that. They provide a way for you to write questions, provide a form for the answer, and probably even grading. I suspect some are even free.

No thanks. You should report it to Microsoft though.

In 1979-80? We did programming on punched cards at that time. I'm serious. That year interactive terminals were introduced in the introduction to programming course taught to all students at the tech.university, but for other courses, we used the punched cards for another year or two. Univac was in the process of developing terminal handling for its OS-1100 mainframe OS, but in 1979, the few terminals available was really clones of the operator console, intended for operators to load and unload open reel half-inch tapes. The OS was designed for so big installations that six to eight operators could be active at the same time, each with a separate console, but with disk taking over, many installations had only one "true" console, and the other seven where made avialable for starting (non-interactive) jobs and reading the result log before it arrived from the 1000 lpm line printer. Univac didn't provide an interactive facility for code editing until 1981 or 82, and even then it was teletype style. Screen oriented editors for Univac 1100 series didn't arrive until later.