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jema
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Posted: Thu May 07, 09 11:42 am Post subject: Funny (DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT OPENING IF NOT AN UBER NERD)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/07/verity_stob_cplusplus/

Dani

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Location: Hertfordshire

Posted: Thu May 07, 09 8:58 pm Post subject:
ahhh... well, I got the beguining, then I quickly drowned

dpack

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Posted: Thu May 07, 09 9:33 pm Post subject:
many years back i tried to use C but found basic much more forgiving hex is nuts and binary is fine if you will live a million years and not care you have still no result for showing a good result i like off the shelf software

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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Posted: Thu May 07, 09 9:36 pm Post subject:
Aye, software is like sanitation - I'm so glad other people can be arsed so I don't have to be!

dpack

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Posted: Thu May 07, 09 9:57 pm Post subject:
proper ds tangent ,but is the sewer network rather like software ? i think i mean one piece at a time and connected together in stages on a needs are basis

tahir

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Posted: Thu May 07, 09 10:12 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

proper ds tangent ,but is the sewer network rather like software ?
i think i mean one piece at a time and connected together in stages on a needs are basis

Pretty much, except for the really huge upgrades like the victorian London ones.

dpack

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Posted: Thu May 07, 09 10:44 pm Post subject:
evolving technology very similar

dpack

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Posted: Thu May 07, 09 10:57 pm Post subject:
spose most of my tries at software were less successful than my tries at sanitation i prefer experts to do both

tahir

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Posted: Thu May 07, 09 11:05 pm Post subject:

Nick

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Posted: Fri May 08, 09 8:28 am Post subject:
I've always been in favour of C++ (LPC, actually, but I digress). Anything that positively encourages you to use foo, bing and frog as variable names can't be all bad.

tahir

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Posted: Fri May 08, 09 8:36 am Post subject:
I'd prefer boo, fing and bog

happytechie

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Location: Surrey (at the mo.)

Posted: Fri May 08, 09 6:41 pm Post subject:
Brilliantly written article but why do we need to change C++ anyway? I can't remember the last time I wrote C++ but it is incredibly elegant when you get down to the fun bits. I had to read some VB8 today, I still feel a bit dirty

jema
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Posted: Fri May 08, 09 6:54 pm Post subject:

I like C++ though I have not written it for years now.

But even then there were getting to be a few things in the language that were unreadable, in the sense that if you didn't already know the syntax you would not be able to figure it out from the code

In languages I like, I think anyone with a lot of language experience should be able to get the gist of most of what a piece of code does even if they don't know the language well. For example it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what the loop constructs do in just about any language.

This new stuff looks almost deliberately obscure

I do hate "clever" code constructs, how many people would understand in "c".

if ( (result=foo(data,&valid), valid))
{

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