A dear friend of mine, Richard Jones (now sadly departed), had a notice on his office wall that read "I know you think you understood what I said, but I don't think you understood that I didn't say what I meant" I have no idea where that quote came from.

Visual Micro plugs right in to VS and works a treat.

'C' Programming, K & R, first edition.

You trust your compiler?? Wow!

Yesterday I responded to a Google email advising me that I should turn off access to my Google account by "less secure apps" ... so I did. This morning Outlook is bombarding me will failure messages whenever it tries to get emails from that account. I just dug deep into my Google account and found out how to turn "allow access from less secure apps" back on (not recommended) and Outlook is a happy chappy again.

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Don't see what XAML has to do with it. I write C# to interface with hardware, do a lot of bit manipulation, and I've never used XAML in my life.

I run 3 additional screens from my laptop, 2 are on USB -> DVI extenders. The original Laptop screen has unimportant stuff on it like emails etc. Then I have two 23" 1920 x 1080 screens for development, and finally I have a 19" 1280 x 1024 touch screen for testing the application on. Most of my time is spent working withg the two 23" screens ~A

No. Actually it isn't. All you have to do (hush my mouth) is add a label to your single return point at the bottom of your procedure, and then (and I can't believe I'm saying this in open forum) "goto" that label. Simples! Yes - I am more than old enough to know better but I do still use goto from time to time and I'm not totally averse to the odd setjmp/longjmp pair in my code. ;P

Brummie English and Algol60. Actually I'd done some programming on whatever language WITCH used when I was at Wolverhampton CAT in '65 but that may not count. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwell_computer[^]

I would have thought that a flat battery was down to poor personal management in this day and age.

Sadly Apple have done exactly that and therefore the bar has been set a little higher in this area. I bought my iPhone with iOS 3.x and it will soon be upgraded to the latest 6.something having been through iOS 4 and 5 on the way. Although I agree with your comments the fact is its nice to get the upgrades for free as part of the infrastructure. I'm not even sure most Android phone suppliers even push security updates out but I might be wrong on that. The whole problem of the next phone is something I'm wrestling with myself at the moment and I am awfully tempted by the big Galaxy Note (II?) at the moment so that maybe I can leave my tablet at home more when I'm on the road.

Algol 60 on an Elliot 803 in 1967.

I once worked on an Activity Planning system for a new startup company. The project was appropriately named NAP (Newco Activity Planning). The new company was formed and has christned Keir Rogers So NAP became KRAP overnight. ~A

I've still got a pair of 8 channel punched paper tapes for a 2 pass BCPL compiler . BCPL -> ICode and a code generator for ICode -> OCode. Ocode was a published interpretable language and all you needed to do was write an interpreter for it. Then write a new code generator for ICode -> target machine code (in BCPL), run the compiler through it self, and BCPL is then ported to the new environment. Sadly I no longer have a paper tape reader. ~A

I didn't know that. I will have a play later on. Thanks. ~A

I found the switch from Vi to Brief took forever. I couldn't get used to having a "live" editing window where every keystroke changed text. My code ended up splattered with colons where I'd started to type a Vi command. These days I use VS for my .NET development and UltraEdit for non-PC targeted projects. I chose UltraEdit because, like Brief, it has a rather nice column editing feature that is so useful as well as the multi window restore at start-up, with each window having the cursor exactly where I left it when I shut the editor down.

I think I read somewhere that there are more English speakers in China than there is England. :~

I once worked on an Activity Planning System for a new company who had yet to decide on a name. The programming team called it the Newco Application Planning System - NAPS for short. About the time it was finished, the new company decided to call themselves Keir Rogers, so overnight NAPS became ... ~A

2 of course because I was brought up on K&R and PDP architecture. I'm told being left handed also helps :-D ~A