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My problem with Python is I believe that all my source code should be visible to the naked eye. Python breaks that rule by making whitespace part of the source code. That inspires violence in me. So I don't use it.
Could not be in more agreement.
FormerBIOSGuy
I thought I was the only one who couldn't do squat with gmail--maybe I'm not incompetent after all. Luckily Thunderbird has been around for years.
FormerBIOSGuy
I think I would have probably created the state machine from scratch instead of trying to describe the valid input with that regex! :wtf:
FormerBIOSGuy
To toggle a flag variable that has values of 0 and 1: Flag = 1 - Flag
FormerBIOSGuy
Goodbye Porkpie Hat :(
FormerBIOSGuy
I still use Quicken 6 for DOS on an old Win 7 laptop that I rarely connect to the network. It never hassles me about upgrading or anything, is lightning quick, and highly transportable! ;)
FormerBIOSGuy
If you use a laptop or desktop computer made in the past few years, your operating system likely relied on a UEFI BIOS written almost entirely in "C" to detect and program the hardware. I would hardly call that irrelevant dreck! ;)
FormerBIOSGuy
AWK was invented in the 70s. Its basic structure has been around from the beginning, and it is as elegant today as it was back in the day. Need to process a text file in some way? Use AWK (GAWK) to do it and you can spend your time thinking about what it is you want to do with the file's contents. You need to spend no time thinking about or writing code to open the file, read its contents, or break it into meaningful tokens--AWK does it all for you. ;)
FormerBIOSGuy
Yes! Quicken for DOS. Still one of the best programs ever written.
FormerBIOSGuy
You might like George Winston, then. He plays solo piano; hard to say what his style is, but it is not classical. "Forest" probably has the most songs that have made it on to my favorites list, but there are several good songs on all his CDs (I have 7 of them). His "Tamarack Pines" from the "Forest" CD is one of the coolest piano pieces I've ever heard.
FormerBIOSGuy
God is an Astronaut, Caspian, Explosions in the Sky, Do Make Say Think, This Will Destroy You, and Mogwai are my mainstays. Not fitting into that category, but something I've also been listening to lately is a lot of George Winston.
FormerBIOSGuy
Windows 9: The best Windows ever! ;P
FormerBIOSGuy