Natural language parsing, voice recognition, OOP is pretty much required to form relationships between various disparate objects. Focus is mainly on the process, and polymorphism takes over the decision branching. Standard C representation executed in terms of minutes, hours, and sometimes days. Rewrite in C++ resulted in split second responses. Rendering HTML took longer than parse times. In my opinion, C++ more closely represents logic, or more specifically OOP does this. Ada coding was my first introduction to OOP, and it was really hard to wrap my head around the concept. It wasn't until I did practical software development where meaning was added, that it all came clear(er). I do far more coding in Java and Flex now, but once in a while I have a need for C(++).

This is uncanny! Twice already in the past two weeks people have tried to convince me that 10 minus 2 equals 11. My situation is pretty much blatantly a battle of wits or more accurately, battle of the witless. I was offered a position with a 5% raise, and when given the salary details, determined it was a 10% drop in pay. Repeated communication with the company just resulted with them confirming it was a promotion. Who would want to work for a company which is either 1) confused, or 2) deceptive? I just said NO... Then today, I was going over my statement with my bank, and the conversation went something like this: Me, "I'm being charged $300 interest." Bank, "No, it shows here you are only being charged $80 interest" Me, "Okay, my previous balance was $1,000" Bank, "Uh huh." Me, "My payment was $400." Bank, "Uh huh." Me, "And now my balance is how much?" Bank, "$900." Me, "Okay, and that's a difference of how much?" Bank, "Uh... Hold on." Needless to say, sometimes people see something on their computer screen and it becomes like a scene from that movie The Invention Of Lying, they believe the screen over basic math. Their brain no longer needs to perform functions such as addition and subtraction. Scary world we live in. And this is non-fiction!!!

TextPAD rocks! If you're going to do ASP.NET or ASP however, Visual Studio 2008 Express is free and does the tips while typing thing. I don't know any free/shareware stuff that does tips while typing for PHP etc. My workplace has DreamWeaver which can do it for html/css while typing, but it costs $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.