(new) Theory and Practice of Programming

Evil COBOL question - (broomberg) - (19) - March 9, 2005, 03:15:33 PM EST

Somewhere around 1967? -NT - (ChrisR) - March 9, 2005, 04:04:35 PM EST

Isn't COBOL scoped by indentation? - (ben_tilly) - (2) - March 9, 2005, 04:39:10 PM EST

No. By "PERIOD" -NT - (broomberg) - (1) - March 9, 2005, 06:35:22 PM EST

A pox upon you for even knowing that. -NT - (mmoffitt) - March 9, 2005, 07:29:53 PM EST

MOVE CUCBOM-KIT (BKI) TO OUT-KIT-NAME. - (imric) - March 9, 2005, 04:40:39 PM EST

C'mon people - (broomberg) - (11) - March 9, 2005, 09:20:18 PM EST

Can't you write a small test program and experiment? -NT - (ben_tilly) - (3) - March 9, 2005, 09:32:45 PM EST

Too ignorant - (broomberg) - (2) - March 9, 2005, 10:04:53 PM EST

Re: Too ignorant - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - March 9, 2005, 11:21:14 PM EST

Nested if... -NT - (imric) - March 10, 2005, 08:02:33 AM EST

Periods in COBOL. - (static) - (3) - March 9, 2005, 09:55:29 PM EST

Thanks - (broomberg) - (2) - March 9, 2005, 10:10:01 PM EST

When I said 'I think' - (imric) - March 9, 2005, 10:43:12 PM EST

END-IF is relatively new. - (static) - March 10, 2005, 12:39:46 AM EST

You need Meerkat's COBOL-fu. -NT - (pwhysall) - (1) - March 9, 2005, 11:02:49 PM EST

Darnit, I've been a bit slow to catch up :( -NT - (Meerkat) - March 15, 2005, 04:59:04 AM EST

Ш сфт щаау - (Arkadiy) - March 9, 2005, 11:04:56 PM EST

Dupe - ignore - (broomberg) - March 9, 2005, 09:22:02 PM EST

<obCrackMonkey>Ha Ha COBOL</obCrackMonkey> -NT - (pwhysall) - March 10, 2005, 01:02:33 AM EST

.NET expert: Microsoft is losing confidence in .NET - (bluke) - March 9, 2005, 10:57:40 AM EST

Perl array question - (pwhysall) - (20) - March 7, 2005, 09:51:52 AM EST

if (grep {$_ eq $thing} @stuff) {...} - (ben_tilly) - (11) - March 7, 2005, 11:08:08 AM EST

Thanks - (pwhysall) - March 7, 2005, 12:04:52 PM EST

grep is cool... - (admin) - (5) - March 7, 2005, 12:08:15 PM EST

Sure beats the old way - (FuManChu) - March 7, 2005, 01:02:55 PM EST

my %seen; # Not $seen = (); - (ben_tilly) - (3) - March 7, 2005, 02:53:31 PM EST

*shrug* I got that from the Perl cookbook. - (admin) - (2) - March 7, 2005, 04:22:17 PM EST

Yes it does work. Once. - (ben_tilly) - (1) - March 7, 2005, 04:28:56 PM EST

Nope, you're right. - (admin) - March 7, 2005, 04:38:02 PM EST

Why I Needed Something Other Than "grep" - (pwhysall) - (3) - March 8, 2005, 03:08:44 AM EST

You may only need one loop... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - March 8, 2005, 09:31:10 AM EST

And there's the rub. - (pwhysall) - March 8, 2005, 12:20:43 PM EST

Post the code - (broomberg) - March 8, 2005, 07:32:37 PM EST

Re: Perl array question - (admin) - (7) - March 7, 2005, 11:14:54 AM EST

woooo.... - (folkert) - March 7, 2005, 11:22:44 AM EST

"other"? - There's another? -NT - (broomberg) - (5) - March 7, 2005, 07:16:12 PM EST

Yes. Ruby. -NT - (ben_tilly) - (4) - March 7, 2005, 07:40:56 PM EST

No, that's the *other* other one. -NT - (admin) - (3) - March 7, 2005, 07:42:42 PM EST

You like TCL?? -NT - (ben_tilly) - (2) - March 7, 2005, 07:59:55 PM EST

Not without a ring, Mister. -NT - (admin) - (1) - March 7, 2005, 08:00:21 PM EST

You prefer to take DOS to bat? -NT - (ben_tilly) - March 7, 2005, 08:28:34 PM EST

~OT: MS shipping applications. - (Another Scott) - (5) - March 5, 2005, 08:55:31 PM EST

Gimme a break - (Arkadiy) - (4) - March 5, 2005, 10:52:59 PM EST

Exactly. - (Another Scott) - March 5, 2005, 11:22:15 PM EST

MS was expected to take care of that - (JayMehaffey) - (2) - March 6, 2005, 10:09:55 AM EST

.NET is part of XP sp1 - (Arkadiy) - (1) - March 6, 2005, 11:29:15 AM EST

Quite correct! - (folkert) - March 6, 2005, 07:44:50 PM EST

Because I can :-P - (ben_tilly) - (29) - March 2, 2005, 02:28:31 PM EST

... -NT - (admin) - March 2, 2005, 02:34:09 PM EST

Make it stop, it hurts! -NT - (Yendor) - March 2, 2005, 03:55:20 PM EST

Ick! -NT - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:46:25 AM EDT

It could be worse... - (ben_tilly) - (2) - March 2, 2005, 04:58:33 PM EST

It could be raining? -NT - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:46:33 AM EDT

That's always possible in Seattle. :-P -NT - (ben_tilly) - March 2, 2005, 05:59:43 PM EST

Omniscient LRPD: His skill is being wasted. -NT - (broomberg) - (4) - March 2, 2005, 06:48:13 PM EST

The tricks that he does are ever so clever. -NT - (ben_tilly) - (3) - March 2, 2005, 07:13:26 PM EST

Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -NT - (admin) - (2) - March 2, 2005, 08:25:40 PM EST

It's a trick. Get an axe. -NT - (folkert) - March 2, 2005, 08:47:53 PM EST

It's like watching someone try to explain quantum physics... - (ben_tilly) - March 2, 2005, 08:48:06 PM EST

You should send this ... - (static) - March 2, 2005, 09:38:27 PM EST

Hofstadter! - (Ashton) - March 3, 2005, 02:05:51 AM EST

Because that didn't have enough parentheses - (ben_tilly) - (14) - March 4, 2005, 01:51:12 PM EST

Re: Because that didn't have enough parentheses - (admin) - (4) - March 3, 2005, 09:52:44 PM EST

Glad to see that I had the desired effect ;-) -NT - (ben_tilly) - (2) - March 4, 2005, 02:22:30 AM EST

You ALWAYS have the desired effect. - (pwhysall) - (1) - March 4, 2005, 02:54:24 AM EST

Till-AAAYYYY!! -NT - (drewk) - March 4, 2005, 10:11:00 AM EST

Sounds like a Little League (baseball) game... -NT - (jb4) - March 4, 2005, 01:34:17 PM EST

This reminds me of the Shapes examples. - (static) - (3) - March 3, 2005, 09:57:49 PM EST

Nope. - (admin) - (2) - March 3, 2005, 10:15:30 PM EST

Ah - I was thinking of DOS batch. -NT - (static) - March 3, 2005, 11:31:01 PM EST

You did DOS batch, too? Dang, *I* was gonna do that... :-( -NT - (CRConrad) - March 4, 2005, 05:08:13 AM EST

I pasted that into vim - (drewk) - (4) - March 4, 2005, 01:57:39 PM EST

Heh. (BTW works fine in my vim) -NT - (ben_tilly) - (2) - March 4, 2005, 03:22:30 PM EST

Uhh ... that whooshing sound you hear ... - (drewk) - (1) - March 4, 2005, 03:29:35 PM EST

I wasn't sure if it might have actually crashed - (ben_tilly) - March 4, 2005, 03:33:29 PM EST

that's OK - (jb4) - March 4, 2005, 07:15:55 PM EST

Job security squared! -NT - (tablizer) - March 12, 2005, 04:24:17 PM EST

Publishing a directory on the web - (Arkadiy) - (10) - Feb. 22, 2005, 10:49:15 PM EST

You want a product or a project? - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 22, 2005, 10:58:00 PM EST

I want to get a job done. - (Arkadiy) - Feb. 23, 2005, 10:34:56 AM EST

What do you mean by "topic"? - (FuManChu) - (2) - Feb. 23, 2005, 12:39:04 AM EST

The usual schema - (Arkadiy) - (1) - Feb. 23, 2005, 10:37:38 AM EST

You can download it, sure. - (FuManChu) - Feb. 23, 2005, 11:16:39 AM EST

Seaside+Postgres - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Feb. 23, 2005, 12:56:27 AM EST

Yeah, that's what I was thinking about, after seeing your - (Arkadiy) - (2) - Feb. 23, 2005, 10:39:19 AM EST

I'll send you something this evening - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Feb. 23, 2005, 02:49:41 PM EST

Thanks -NT - (Arkadiy) - Feb. 23, 2005, 03:28:54 PM EST

Re: Publishing a directory on the web - (JimWeirich) - Feb. 23, 2005, 11:43:31 AM EST

Is this guy right about Spring? - (drewk) - (13) - Feb. 19, 2005, 12:25:50 AM EST

Uneducated guess - (ChrisR) - (9) - Feb. 19, 2005, 09:32:05 AM EST

Here's what's wrong with it - (drewk) - (8) - Feb. 20, 2005, 07:31:35 PM EST

But there wasn't a subclass for every query. - (admin) - (7) - Feb. 20, 2005, 08:02:30 PM EST

It *is* about the size, then - (drewk) - (6) - Feb. 20, 2005, 08:56:00 PM EST

What that achieves. - (static) - Feb. 20, 2005, 09:32:55 PM EST

Which is this? - (admin) - (4) - Feb. 20, 2005, 10:04:08 PM EST

The jdbc/connection pooling shtuffs - (drewk) - (3) - Feb. 21, 2005, 02:37:05 AM EST

Re: Ideal world - (admin) - (2) - Feb. 21, 2005, 07:01:54 AM EST

Right, meant "view or procedure" - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 21, 2005, 11:35:37 AM EST

No, those can be tested as well. - (admin) - Feb. 21, 2005, 12:37:42 PM EST

Somewhat. - (admin) - (2) - Feb. 20, 2005, 05:29:34 PM EST

Is the sample code right? - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 20, 2005, 03:25:00 PM EST

Fixed. - (admin) - Feb. 20, 2005, 05:31:09 PM EST

Great - another perfectly good term hijacked and hosed - (tuberculosis) - (7) - Feb. 16, 2005, 01:47:44 PM EST

Not the first time - (tjsinclair) - Feb. 16, 2005, 01:36:08 PM EST

Hurrah! -NT - (pwhysall) - Feb. 16, 2005, 01:59:18 PM EST

dunno about C# - (Arkadiy) - (2) - Feb. 16, 2005, 02:08:59 PM EST

Except you have to implement the whole interface - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Feb. 16, 2005, 03:06:52 PM EST

Oh, I just gave the most pervasive example - (Arkadiy) - Feb. 16, 2005, 03:32:30 PM EST

Actually, that appears to be very similar. - (altmann) - (1) - Feb. 16, 2005, 03:06:28 PM EST

Never mind. They are different. -NT - (altmann) - Feb. 18, 2005, 05:39:07 PM EST

Shunning Mike For Fun And Profit, The Retro Redux - (pwhysall) - (21) - Feb. 15, 2005, 06:37:11 PM EST

OT: Zooks! - (Another Scott) - Feb. 15, 2005, 07:02:49 PM EST

shunmike.py - (FuManChu) - (3) - Feb. 15, 2005, 07:27:59 PM EST

That's nifty... - (pwhysall) - (2) - Feb. 15, 2005, 07:31:35 PM EST

Sorry, missed that bit. -NT - (FuManChu) - (1) - Feb. 16, 2005, 01:04:46 AM EST

At any rate: - (admin) - Feb. 16, 2005, 09:37:33 AM EST

PurePascal on an Atari ST (STEeM) - (pwhysall) - (1) - Feb. 15, 2005, 07:42:16 PM EST

Bah. - (admin) - Feb. 15, 2005, 07:55:54 PM EST

Ha, least line of code and low end processor? - (daemon) - (6) - Feb. 15, 2005, 09:32:05 PM EST

Error in line 2. Premature termination. -NT - (Another Scott) - Feb. 15, 2005, 09:34:50 PM EST

That's not pen and paper, that's screen and keyboard - (Arkadiy) - (2) - Feb. 16, 2005, 12:12:34 PM EST

How about Gimp? - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 16, 2005, 12:28:51 PM EST

Sheesh - (pwhysall) - Feb. 16, 2005, 01:28:26 PM EST

Nah... I gotta better one. Better than Drew's, too. - (folkert) - (1) - Feb. 16, 2005, 02:39:45 PM EST

Heh. Sysadmin emulator. -NT - (pwhysall) - Feb. 16, 2005, 02:41:13 PM EST

68K Mac - (altmann) - (2) - Feb. 15, 2005, 09:54:57 PM EST

That screenshot vibrates on my LCD monitor. :-) - (static) - (1) - Feb. 15, 2005, 10:14:17 PM EST

Didn't see 8-bit in the original requirements document. -NT - (altmann) - Feb. 15, 2005, 10:26:19 PM EST

And C# on the Pocket PC - (altmann) - (3) - Feb. 15, 2005, 10:24:25 PM EST

Ha! :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - Feb. 15, 2005, 10:46:25 PM EST

Woot and Yay! -NT - (folkert) - Feb. 16, 2005, 12:10:33 AM EST

Superb. That just won a beer, should we ever meet. -NT - (pwhysall) - Feb. 16, 2005, 07:26:46 AM EST

.Net Serialization - (johnu) - Feb. 15, 2005, 02:18:54 PM EST

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