Post #126,695
11/19/03 11:49:22 AM
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What Ben said...
You need to get out more, Burns. C++ is a pretty cramped neighborhood... ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #126,698
11/19/03 11:53:02 AM
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Even C++ allows defining in scope...
for (var job eachJob = .....
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Post #126,717
11/19/03 3:12:33 PM
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My two sense...
we usually had most logic than a simple ArrayList or Vector in our collection classes...
so:
JobCollection allJobs;
Job aJob;
Job aProgammer; // Better still
Then:
foreach (allJobs.begin(), allJobs.end(), <function call>);
(Or you could simply walk through them)
for (allJobs::iterator i= allJobs.begin(); i != allJobs::iterator.end(); i++) {
// DO something
}
// The each aspect is implied - so it falls out.
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Post #126,710
11/19/03 1:59:05 PM
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Well,
I write in what I'm paid to write in. Right now that's C...with a migration to C++ in the offing.
Most of my work is in the embedded arena. The closest thing I have to a script language is the shell of whatever platform we're using for cross development (mostly Windows, which as we all know, doesn't have a shell; some work is going to happen on Linux [Hoo-RAY!], and I'm furiously learning bash, because csh sux!). Some talk of perl work; so I'll be availing myself of the collective's expertise soon enough.
Oh, yeah...and MAKE files...they're sorta a script....
We don' need no steenkin' Web services!
jb4
"There are two ways for you to have lower Prescription-drug costs. One is you could hire Rush Limbaugh's housekeeper ... or you can elect me President."
John Kerry
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Post #126,730
11/19/03 4:09:54 PM
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Re: I write in what I get PAID to write in
Hm. I get paid to write in what I write in. Subtle difference. ;)
I truly appreciated the power of anonymity in dynamic languages today, when I wrote:
categories = {}.fromkeys(categories).keys()
which removes duplicate items from the sequence named 'categories'. The {} creates a new, anonymous dictionary, which is first populated with .fromkeys(), then immediately consumed by .keys(), which returns the list I want.
Of course, if I did this regularly, I would put it in a named function, like 'flatten' or 'dedupe' or something. But you get the idea.
I was one of the original authors of VB, and *I* wouldn't use VB for a text
processing program. :-) Michael Geary, on comp.lang.python
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Post #126,749
11/19/03 5:26:50 PM
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You're clearly NOT a contractor, then...
jb4
"There are two ways for you to have lower Prescription-drug costs. One is you could hire Rush Limbaugh's housekeeper ... or you can elect me President."
John Kerry
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Post #126,747
11/19/03 5:14:44 PM
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I don't.
Well, I do, but I also write in a lot of other things, too.
Because learning languages other than the ones I use at work gives me a new appreciation (or depreciation, for that matter ;-) for how they operate, and new insights into how to use them creatively to solve problems.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #126,764
11/19/03 7:57:13 PM
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must be nice to have real work
-drl
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Post #126,793
11/19/03 11:47:21 PM
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I'll bet it is too
FWIW
jobs do: [:each | each start].
"I believe that many of the systems we build today in Java would be better built in Smalltalk and Gemstone."
-- Martin Fowler, JAOO 2003
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