I find it interesting that something can go from unknown to world-renowned, without being "world-known" as an intermediary.

Looks like you have rediscovered DLL Hell[^]. It's a real thing and still a problem in 2020 with no end in sight. Best Wishes, -David Delaune

One random thought, which might not work: If a user starts typing in the "solution" box on one of their own questions, show a big warning banner asking them whether they're actually trying to update their question, with a big "edit question" button. Possibly with another confirmation message when they click submit. It won't catch them all, but it might make it more obvious to new users who don't know how to update their question. :) "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Thanks for letting us know cheers Chris Maunder

A mistake which can easily be rectified by spending five minutes perusing QA. :laugh: "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

I don't mind getting confused now and then, but more than once I (and many others too) have fallen into the trap of thinking this was a new question and spent time writing an answer. Not only was that time most likely wasted, adding a new solution also makes that Q/A's date seem more legitimate than it should be, leading to further contributions and time wasted. There's no point beating on a dead horse. And that is the reason (or one reason) why most forums and similar platforms have the option of locking a dead horse. Errrm ... thread. ;) GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)

Batman Begins is the saga where Christian Bale plays batman. This saga is the one I like most because it shows a little more "real" possibilities (of course they still are films). The fist "Batman begins" is IMHO good, but the second one is damm good. Heath Ledger as the Joker rocks. M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Unless something has changed, you can get 2010 through an MSDN pr Visual Studio subscription. (Pricing and Purchasing Options | Visual Studio[^]) Also note that that both VS 2015 and 2017 can support the 2010 toolset.

Unfortunately I'm already on it just for asking about it - as is everyone else answering in this thread :omg: ;P GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)

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Perhaps Russia can claim insurance reimbursement from GEICO! PS. For those not in the US, GEICO is an insurance company that uses a gecko in its advertisements.

And another occurence, this time concerning dynamic_cast template arguments. In the solution I posted here[^], I tried to post code containing dynamic_cast<some_type*>(some_pointer); but what I got - even after an attempt to correct it - was dynamic_cast(some_pointer); I needed to replace the < and > tokens by the corresponding HTML tags to fix it! Test to replicate: dynamic_cast(some_pointer) P.S.: Test failed - couldn't replicate :( GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)

Well, I have been out of work for a while now, so I have had plenty of time for that. :) Soren Madsen "When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty

I've seen the following written by people who've been programming for over 25 years. Not everyone understands terse code. Even less understand what macros were originally made for. bool flag; if (a > b) flag = true; else flag = false;

jschell wrote: Generated code doesn't have to be pretty. As it turned out the .w files were not generated after all: they're all hand-written just as they are. But I was talking about code quality anyway, not prettyness. jschell wrote: failure is in the outsourcing process Agreed. I could elaborate on that, but I'm not here to complain over past failures (ok, that as well, but I'm almost done on that part ;) ), but to get advice what I could do to fix it.

Stefan_Lang wrote: I don't consider the typing to be a problem So dont use 'using' then. :) ============================== Nothing to say.

The error messages that I like are the ones cold-called on the telephone: "We have been monitoring your computer and believe you have a problem that is causing it to go slow." A typical conversation then goes like ... Me: Which computer? Them: The one running Windows. Me: Oh! That narrows it down ... which version of Windows? (I have several versions on different machines) Them: Not sure - our report doesn't say. Me: Wow! A detailed report that analyses everything about my PC except which version of OS it is running. Them: Err, yes! It is the one that is getting slower. Me: Ah! That one. What does it say is the cause? Them: We need to access your machine to find out. Me: Not a very useful report that you're working from is it, then? Besides, I know what the problem is even without your help. Them: We have the software that can fix it if you let me access your machine. What do you think that the problem is? Me: That would be wonderful, thank you. The problem is a dry joint on the motherboard ... how can your software fix that? Them: Just let us access your PC - we know more about them than you do. Me: I have an honours degree in Computing, 31 years professional experience as a software engineer and computer implementation specialist, am an MBCS and CITP, and am the IT 'guru' for several charitable organisations. What is your experience, apart from being able to frighten the gullible into allowing you to install malware? Phone: 'The other person has cleared'.

Cool Cow Orjan wrote: low coupling, small interface, high cohesion You guessed it: yes, 95% of our application is everything but that. Much of it is 'objectified C', stuff like structs renamed to class, but with everything staying on the public interface because it's being referenced in thousands of places. And that, exactly is the problem: everyone references everything, or in other words, calling our 'interfaces' huge might be an understatement. :( I know I will eventually have to face that, but before I do I wish to start small to get a hang of Unit Tests. What I'll start with is the libraries I wrote myself, beginning with one I've just started implementing. At least here I know exactly where it's referenced (nowhere so far), and what it is supposed to achieve. I've just seen your followup post. Thanks for the tip, yes I will be in need of good documentation, so I might just as well look into boost.

Another issue is OOP tends to sue more layers of abstraction and with each layer you have construction/destruction even with small objects. This is very tricky to optimise. Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]