Gilligan's Island!

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Ooops, someone already said that. Never mind. :doh:

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Mike_V wrote:

Run-on sentences are bad and run-ons make a website or any document look unprofessional and they are easy to avoid, an example of a run-on sentence can be found at http://www.sysinternals.com[^]

Gee, Mike, how about your own run-on sentence! That's really two sentences. The first sentence should end at "easy to avoid" (after which should appear a period) and the second begins at "an example of" (which should begin with a capital A). Couldn't help but notice, dude. ;P

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Have more info so had to reply to my own message. The copies I see on Ebay range in price from almost nothing to buy-it-now price of $169. Thorn

My search for "visual c++ 6.0" yielded 5 sealed in the box copies of VC++ 6.0 Professional (not academic) and they include MSDN Library (but probably not an MSDN subscription, I imagine). Thorn

C# is just the beginning. Programming languages will continue to become increasingly abstract and thus lend themselves to greater programmer productivity. Does anyone still lament the leap from assembler to higher-level code like C? Many programmers now do not even consider C high-level. Before very long, even C++ will almost seem like assembler does now because of the need to pay attention to low-level details. Eventually, C# will be eclipsed by something even more abstract (perhaps C** "See Stars") where the programmer makes syntactical "gestures" and the compiler just seems to know what you mean. Integrated logic debugging will be tightly married to code production rather than an afterthought. Intellisense is the handwriting on the wall, so to speak, a hint of what is to come. Every religion has its adherents, and programming languages are a lot like religions - formal systems of belief. But the holy grail for coders is and always will be productivity. Doing the most with the least effort, the fewest lines of code, is what drives compiler development and pushes programming languages into higher and higher levels of abstraction. We have lift-off. Thorn