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| DATE | 2005-02-12 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Monitoring input in simple chat exercise.
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Ron Guerin wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 12:39 -0500, Martin, Jared wrote:
>
>>The proprietary programming environment (libraries,
>>IDE's) I'm using is a very high- level program called kwrite and
>>gcc. :-)
>>The rest of what you've said is very true, however. I feel I I've a
>>good grasp of the fundamentals. I started studing on a version of
>>pascal that ran in dos (can't remember the version) I realize that's
>>nothing for lots of you guys, and c is definitly a more mature lang.
>>But there were none of these programming environs when I started.
>>What is more, although I could be studing how to do 3d graphics with
>>libs I don't begin to understand, you'll notice I'm instead studing
>>the ins and out of working with sockets and streams using nothing more
>>than the standard lib.
>
>
> Well, I'm feeling contrarian today, so I'm going to say anything that
> gets you interested in programming is a good thing, especially if it's
> for yourself. The standard for a fine program that you wrote yourself
> for yourself should be that it _works_.
>
> Nevertheless, professional standards is something of a hot topic in
> here, and also among my friends who know nothing of NYLXS's or NYLUG's
> mailing lists. If you're planning on doing this for a living, please
> _do_ make sure to go back to the beginning. It makes a big difference
> in the quality of not just the code itself, but the solutions devised.
> I know of one company who I won't name, but they've been a symbol of
> quality for some time now and they're in the midst of trying to fulfill
> a hiring quota now, and have reduced themselves to bringing in people
> who are pleased with themselves for over commenting obvious lines of
> code. (or perhaps not obvious to them, just anyone who's actually
> competent) That company's fate is now sealed.
> btw: The first "compiler" I owned was Pascal for the C-64. I'd love to
> smack my high school teachers who were peddling this nonsense about
> Pascal being the language of the future.
High school programming classes were truly Wirthless.
Who was applying the apparent pascals of pressure pushing that
language into highschool curricula?
I never had Pascal for my C64. I ended up inheriting a MacSE
with a Pascal environment whose name escapes me. Lucky dog.
The Mac Pascal sucked because you could only run your programs
from WITHIN the environment. I guess this was 1991 or so.
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