Guffa wrote:

It was a deliberate decision

Oh really? And all this time I thought it was accidental. :rolleyes: I know why they did it. I just disagree with the practice of neutering languages in an attempt to open up platform development to the less capable.

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Trollbait? You walked into a thread that you had no interest in and nothing to add to. Your sole contribution to date has been to derail the topic by way of (poorly, and simply) attempting to insult those who were speaking on topic. Come to think of it, perhaps I am troll bait. Your actions to date are, clearly and irrefutably, the very definition of the term "troll". Not that I care. Honestly I'm just bored and you're an easy target, just as all trolls are easy targets. You have my permission to continue entertaining me until 2:30, which is when I leave the office and you cease to exist. Or you could, finally, stop trolling the thread as requested. Twice. Your call. Either way, you still don't matter.

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Oakman wrote:

There is, but folks who hang out on Wall Street don't know it.

Case in point. I wonder if you're old enough to be one of those guys who thought Clinton had something to do with the upturn during his time in office?

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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

If I wanted to listen to an arse speak, I'd fart. Or perhaps you missed the irony in my reply.

Well this began as a discussion about attractive women. Clearly you're not interested -- not, as Seinfeld said, that there's anything wrong with that. Still, there are those of us on the other side of the coin, and we would appreciate it if you and your equally uninterested sycophant would kindly p*ss off. I've made that clear once already and you responded with irrelevant, monosyllabic drivel. Perhaps this time you could respond by actually p*ssing off as ordered.

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Paul Conrad wrote:

Nice one

Silence, lackey.

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Which leads the more enlightended among us to wonder why someone who doesn't give a sh*t would bother writing, "I don't give a sh*t". First, life is finite. Go spend it on something you do give a sh*t about. Second, why would anyone give a sh*t about an anti-contribution to a discussion from someone who doesn't give a sh*t about the topic? I hope this has been of some help to you in your quest for personal growth and self improvement. If I can be of further assistance, please feel free to make additional pointless posts and I'll be happy to straighten you out every single time.

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This is an excerpt from the navigation program that allows one to crash television sets into the moon. Duh.

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suhredayan wrote:

Don't we have new programmers still writing "Hello world" program? Or do you suggest them to google and download the binary, execute it, and enjoy watching the magic text on the screen?

... because "hello world" and landing on the moon are totally the same thing. :doh: The correct answer is, you do not share space rocket technology because it's only a short hop between crashing a TV into the moon and crashing a fistful of warheads into someone's city.

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This doesn't help you right now, but you could beg Microsoft to include useful things like proper preprocessor macros the next time they make a programming language. You could fudge it, sorta' like this: void Breakpoint() { #if _BREAK_ENABLED System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break(); #endif } I'm pretty sure that calls to empty function bodies are effectively eliminated by the time the JIT comes into play, but I could be wrong.

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So... does that mean it's a frequent topic of conversation and you're being sarcastic (which I would approve), or does it mean there really weren't enough context clues in the post for you to figure it out?

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The human capacity for silliness never ceases to amaze me. Consider: A president from a party you dislike is in office: The economy goes bad: you blame the president for the state of the free market economy The economy does well: you suddenly remember it's a free market economy and assign no credit to the president A president from a party you like is in office: The economy goes bad: you suddenly remember it's a free market economy and assign no blame to the president The economy does well: suddenly you re-believe that the sitting president is somehow in control of the free market economy It's just awesome. Such people are also, generally, the sort who think there's a difference between "Wall street" and "Main street".

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If words like "cusip" frequently appear in your code, chances are you have a favorite. Personally I'm torn between Erin Burnett and Margaret Brennan. Erin's got the anchor/power thing going on but Margaret's got the good lookin' girl next door thing happening. Who's your favorite?

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"One of the objectives of this probe is to understand the moon for future soft landings", [spokesman] Guruprasad said. Here's a hint: it's a rock.

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Perforce is free for that kind of use; up to two users. That's what I use at home. It's also what I chose for work so I like the fact that it's the same in both places.

-- Saving the world, one line of code at a time