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    Anton Afanasyev
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    http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Could-You-Explain-Programming-Please.aspx[^] This is just...wow. Reminds me of the random posts in the Lounge a bit.. :p

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      http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Could-You-Explain-Programming-Please.aspx[^] This is just...wow. Reminds me of the random posts in the Lounge a bit.. :p

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      I'd like to see the brother-in-law try to write a program for an NP-Hard problem that solves the problem in polynomial time. --modified Or, introduce the brother-in-law to the Plain English compiler :rolleyes:

      "I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

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        I'd like to see the brother-in-law try to write a program for an NP-Hard problem that solves the problem in polynomial time. --modified Or, introduce the brother-in-law to the Plain English compiler :rolleyes:

        "I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

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        Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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        Paul Conrad wrote:

        try to write a program for an NP-Hard problem that solves the problem in polynomial time.

        Might as well ask pigs to fly :)

        "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"

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          Paul Conrad wrote:

          try to write a program for an NP-Hard problem that solves the problem in polynomial time.

          Might as well ask pigs to fly :)

          "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"

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          Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

          Might as well ask pigs to fly

          Yep. I was quite hesitant in mentioning the particular programming language :laugh:

          "I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

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            Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

            Might as well ask pigs to fly

            Yep. I was quite hesitant in mentioning the particular programming language :laugh:

            "I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

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            Its a safe bet that he couldn't do it short of Magik

            "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"

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            • A Anton Afanasyev

              http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Could-You-Explain-Programming-Please.aspx[^] This is just...wow. Reminds me of the random posts in the Lounge a bit.. :p

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              Christian Graus
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              Donna's cousin is over from the mainland and visiting today. I guarentee he'll ask me 'how do you know what to type to program a computer' and 'I make spreadsheets in Excel, is that programming', etc. Every - single - time.

              Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                Donna's cousin is over from the mainland and visiting today. I guarentee he'll ask me 'how do you know what to type to program a computer' and 'I make spreadsheets in Excel, is that programming', etc. Every - single - time.

                Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                Paul Conrad
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                Christian Graus wrote:

                make spreadsheets in Excel, is that programming

                Hardly.... :laugh:

                "I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

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                • A Anton Afanasyev

                  http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Could-You-Explain-Programming-Please.aspx[^] This is just...wow. Reminds me of the random posts in the Lounge a bit.. :p

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                  In laws. You can't teach them anything! Marc

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                  • A Anton Afanasyev

                    http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Could-You-Explain-Programming-Please.aspx[^] This is just...wow. Reminds me of the random posts in the Lounge a bit.. :p

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                    *Elaine whimpers having been on the receiving end of these*

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