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Post #116,570
by tuberculosis
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9/4/03 11:21:45 AM
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New Sounds more like FORTRAN
Cobol has copy (you know - like include) files.


Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don't try it; it could ruin your life. Once you take the time to learn it (to REALLY learn it) you will see that there is nothing out there (yet) to touch it. Of course, like all drugs, how dangerous it is depends on your character. It may be that once you've got to this stage you'll find it difficult (if not impossible) to "go back" to other languages and, if you are forced to, you might become an embittered character constantly muttering ascerbic comments under your breath. Who knows, you may even have to quit the software industry altogether because nothing else lives up to your new expectations.
--AndyBower
Post #116,571
by admin
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9/4/03 11:29:09 AM
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New Yes, very FORTRANish
I worked with a guy at Coopers & Lybrand once who was an economist by education. He taught himself how to program C.

So, in this program he wrote, main() called proc(), which was about 5000 lines long with numbered variable names instead of structs. Gah.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
     Question about programming with functions. - (static) - (47) - Sept. 4, 2003, 07:17:27 AM EDT
         Code that's called once... - (admin) - (21) - Sept. 4, 2003, 07:43:01 AM EDT
             What he said, with more detail - (drewk) - (20) - Sept. 4, 2003, 09:31:15 AM EDT
                 Re: What he said, with more detail - (deSitter) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2003, 09:53:20 AM EDT
                     Uhh, HTML *is* structured - (drewk) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2003, 10:04:59 AM EDT
                         HTML not a page definition language - (deSitter) - Sept. 4, 2003, 10:15:29 AM EDT
                 What he said, and what he before him said ... - (JimWeirich) - (15) - Sept. 4, 2003, 10:14:02 AM EDT
                     Someone confirm/deny what I was told - (drewk) - (13) - Sept. 4, 2003, 11:07:16 AM EDT
                         Depends on the language - (admin) - (7) - Sept. 4, 2003, 11:10:36 AM EDT
                             Re: Depends on the language - (deSitter) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2003, 11:17:50 AM EDT
                                 Sounds more like FORTRAN - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2003, 11:21:45 AM EDT
                                     Yes, very FORTRANish - (admin) - Sept. 4, 2003, 11:29:09 AM EDT
                             Different reason for that, I believe - (drewk) - (3) - Sept. 4, 2003, 12:05:31 PM EDT
                                 We did testing... - (admin) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2003, 01:28:51 PM EDT
                                     D'oh! - (drewk) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2003, 02:42:49 PM EDT
                                         ROFL. -NT - (admin) - Sept. 4, 2003, 02:49:28 PM EDT
                         I have a 1GHz laptop - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2003, 11:30:59 AM EDT
                             Or better yet - (Arkadiy) - Sept. 4, 2003, 03:49:58 PM EDT
                         Re: Someone confirm/deny what I was told - (JimWeirich) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2003, 12:41:13 PM EDT
                             Yeah that guy gets around! - (tuberculosis) - Sept. 4, 2003, 04:12:07 PM EDT
                         Puh-LEEEEZE! - (jb4) - Sept. 23, 2003, 02:36:42 PM EDT
                     How big a block? - (static) - Sept. 4, 2003, 09:56:40 PM EDT
                 Pascal has one up on PHP - (tablizer) - Sept. 13, 2003, 01:01:32 PM EDT
         Re: inline PHP code and HTML - (tuberculosis) - (18) - Sept. 4, 2003, 11:19:45 AM EDT
             Copy and Paste vs Functions. - (static) - (17) - Sept. 4, 2003, 09:49:32 PM EDT
                 Nothing wrong with 12 4-5 line functions - (admin) - Sept. 4, 2003, 10:14:18 PM EDT
                 Typical size of a method in Smalltalk is probably 4-5 lines - (tuberculosis) - (15) - Sept. 4, 2003, 11:47:55 PM EDT
                     Um. Yabut. - (FuManChu) - (14) - Sept. 5, 2003, 02:46:46 AM EDT
                         I was wondering how to say that. :-) - (static) - (13) - Sept. 5, 2003, 10:57:35 PM EDT
                             I'm going for fairly strict layout/form/content separation - (FuManChu) - Sept. 6, 2003, 12:22:53 AM EDT
                             Do I smell another "OO is better abstraction" war brewing? - (tablizer) - (11) - Sept. 13, 2003, 01:14:42 PM EDT
                                 That is a fault of history OF the current language. - (FuManChu) - (4) - Sept. 13, 2003, 02:17:15 PM EDT
                                     So you reject a language because - (tablizer) - (3) - Sept. 14, 2003, 01:49:36 AM EDT
                                         Not at all. - (FuManChu) - (2) - Sept. 14, 2003, 04:37:02 PM EDT
                                             not very nice wording, if you ask me - (tablizer) - (1) - Sept. 19, 2003, 02:04:09 AM EDT
                                                 Then you might have guessed I wasn't trying to be diplomatic -NT - (FuManChu) - Sept. 19, 2003, 02:42:37 AM EDT
                                 Not unless you're spoiling for a fight. -NT - (static) - (1) - Sept. 15, 2003, 07:49:09 AM EDT
                                     No, fighting the spOOilings -NT - (tablizer) - Sept. 19, 2003, 02:07:43 AM EDT
                                 Hey Bryce... - (ChrisR) - (3) - Sept. 15, 2003, 02:52:16 PM EDT
                                     Perhaps - (tablizer) - (2) - Sept. 19, 2003, 01:42:59 AM EDT
                                         I've read way too many Oracle books lately - (ChrisR) - (1) - Sept. 19, 2003, 10:44:14 AM EDT
                                             thanks for the quote -NT - (tablizer) - Sept. 20, 2003, 12:38:50 AM EDT
         Re: Question about programming with functions. - (JayMehaffey) - Sept. 4, 2003, 02:24:13 PM EDT
         Code as a Communications Tool - (gdaustin) - Sept. 4, 2003, 02:33:16 PM EDT
         Code for readability - (broomberg) - (3) - Sept. 5, 2003, 10:24:10 PM EDT
             Profiling and optimizing. - (static) - (2) - Sept. 5, 2003, 10:51:02 PM EDT
                 Difficult to optimize the algorithm after the fact - (broomberg) - (1) - Sept. 6, 2003, 11:42:37 AM EDT
                     Yes, I know. - (static) - Sept. 7, 2003, 02:46:59 AM EDT

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