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  • P Pete OHanlon

    We didn't have IDE's on Unix systems when I started. I'm, what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yes, I'm old.

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    Nagy Vilmos
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    Yup, no argument from here. BTW, IIRC in vi you can write and exit with only three key strokes - [ESC]ZZ - rather than the cumbersome five of [ESC]:wq[ENTER].

    speramus in juniperus

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    • A Argonia

      If you are programmer with not enough background with the language i don't thing that the best practice is to disable the coloring of the text. I think that the language itself it is not so easy to do such practice. And beside that coloring can save you hours of debugging in some cases like this for example. A enough experienced c++ / colorblind programmer can disable the coloring without lowering his or hers productivity.

      Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

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      Nagy Vilmos
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      When you become practised in the art then you simply hold your hands above the keyboard in supplication and the code writes itself out of fear of reprisals. :cool:

      speramus in juniperus

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      • N Nagy Vilmos

        When you become practised in the art then you simply hold your hands above the keyboard in supplication and the code writes itself out of fear of reprisals. :cool:

        speramus in juniperus

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        Argonia
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        I can only dream of achieving such heights. :sigh:

        Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

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        • P Pete OHanlon

          We didn't have IDE's on Unix systems when I started. I'm, what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yes, I'm old.

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          Sentenryu
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          Well, I'm young and I run away from unix, so there's that :laugh:

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          • P Pablo Aliskevicius

            The compilers I've used give a warning in cases like this. JM2B,

            Pablo. "Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899). "You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).

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            Sentenryu
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            Who looks at warnings? nobody that works with me, sadly :(

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            • S Sentenryu

              Who looks at warnings? nobody that works with me, sadly :(

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              OriginalGriff
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              I don't - I have "treat warnings as errors" set on my projects to prevent compilation succeeding! :laugh:

              Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

              "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
              "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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              • T Tsuda Kageyu

                Oops! It was like this:

                // Sometimes carry out the work \
                if (flag)
                {
                SomeWork();
                }

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                Nicholas Marty
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                That's a reason more to use K&R style (or a variation of it)!! :laugh:

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  I don't - I have "treat warnings as errors" set on my projects to prevent compilation succeeding! :laugh:

                  Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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                  Sentenryu
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                  People here don't read error messages, so even if i set that they would just ignore

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    I don't - I have "treat warnings as errors" set on my projects to prevent compilation succeeding! :laugh:

                    Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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                    Lost User
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                    Many programmers use "treat errors as warnings" option.

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      I don't - I have "treat warnings as errors" set on my projects to prevent compilation succeeding! :laugh:

                      Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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                      Many programmers use "treat errors as warnings" flag.

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                      • S Sentenryu

                        People here don't read error messages, so even if i set that they would just ignore

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                        OriginalGriff
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                        That's the whole point: if you set "treat warnings as errors" then compilation fails until the warning is fixed. You can't run or test you app until you do.

                        Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

                        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                        "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                        • P Pete OHanlon

                          And what about those hard core devs who swear by (instead of at) vi? My point wasn't that Notepad++ supports or does not support colourisation. It's that you can't rely on colourisation to indicate problems.

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                          CPallini
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                          Hey man, hats off to vi: it provides syntax colouring as well. And you can rely on colourization. Well, unless you write something like

                          for (n=0; n<100; ++n);
                          {
                          doSomething();
                          }

                          Veni, vidi, vici.

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                          • N Nagy Vilmos

                            When you become practised in the art then you simply hold your hands above the keyboard in supplication and the code writes itself out of fear of reprisals. :cool:

                            speramus in juniperus

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                            CPallini
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                            Yes, we do know PMs have a quite twisted perception of the software development process. ;P

                            Veni, vidi, vici.

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                            • P Pete OHanlon

                              Hey, I like vi. There are parts of it that I wish were available in Visual Studio. dd for instance. Or 10dd to delete 10 lines. Yes, you can do this using other means in an IDE, but they are all more cumbersome.

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                              Brisingr Aerowing
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                              VsVim[^] might be useful for you. It adds Vim commands to VS.

                              Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor

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                              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                That's the whole point: if you set "treat warnings as errors" then compilation fails until the warning is fixed. You can't run or test you app until you do.

                                Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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                                Freak30
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                                My old boss once jokingly said that he was still waiting for the "treat errors as warnings" flag. :D

                                The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.

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                                  Many programmers use "treat errors as warnings" flag.

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                                  Rob Grainger
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                                  I just make sure my code compiles without warnings. If I really cannot avoid a warning, I use a pragma to disable a specific warning, with an explanatory comment.

                                  "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                                  • T Tsuda Kageyu

                                    Oops! It was like this:

                                    // Sometimes carry out the work \
                                    if (flag)
                                    {
                                    SomeWork();
                                    }

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                                    Rob Grainger
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                                    That's a lousy attempt at obfuscation. Here's a real professional at work: IOCCC[^]. (That is a full hardware emulation of a 1980's PC hardware (much more info in the other files in this folder[^]. Some top aspects: It is 4043 bytes long (half an 8086). "It manages to implement most of the hardware in a 1980’s era IBM-PC using a few hundred fewer bits than the total number of transistors used to implement the original 8086 CPU." (edited for spelling)

                                    "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                                    • R Rob Grainger

                                      That's a lousy attempt at obfuscation. Here's a real professional at work: IOCCC[^]. (That is a full hardware emulation of a 1980's PC hardware (much more info in the other files in this folder[^]. Some top aspects: It is 4043 bytes long (half an 8086). "It manages to implement most of the hardware in a 1980’s era IBM-PC using a few hundred fewer bits than the total number of transistors used to implement the original 8086 CPU." (edited for spelling)

                                      "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                                      Lutoslaw
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                                      Whoa... [^].

                                      Greetings - Jacek

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                                      • P Pete OHanlon

                                        Hey, I like vi. There are parts of it that I wish were available in Visual Studio. dd for instance. Or 10dd to delete 10 lines. Yes, you can do this using other means in an IDE, but they are all more cumbersome.

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                                        Lost User
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                                        I have a vi plugin for visual studio. It's called vsvim, and as far as I remember I installed it in the extension manager gui.

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                                        • B Brisingr Aerowing

                                          VsVim[^] might be useful for you. It adds Vim commands to VS.

                                          Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor

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                                          Lost User
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                                          Teach me to comment before reading the whole thread

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