Just pointing out:
1) tablizer's "VB" didn't look like any VB I've ever seen, and
2) I didn't think he pointed out anything really useful. So I thought I would.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled language war.
Programming algorithms, switch() and Perl.
- (static)
- (25)
- Feb. 21, 2003, 12:42:42 AM EST
well its not perl
- (boxley)
- (1)
- Feb. 21, 2003, 09:02:32 AM EST
That's a point.
- (static)
- Feb. 22, 2003, 05:04:33 AM EST
What's the diff? If it needs a "break", it's just as stupid!
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- (13)
- Feb. 21, 2003, 10:22:36 AM EST
The difference is ...
- (drewk)
- (1)
- Feb. 21, 2003, 10:40:14 AM EST
Right, slight assembler efficiency gain.
-NT
- (admin)
- Feb. 21, 2003, 10:49:24 AM EST
Re: What's the diff?
- (admin)
- (10)
- Feb. 21, 2003, 10:47:57 AM EST
Couple more
- (tuberculosis)
- Feb. 21, 2003, 03:45:11 PM EST
It's a kind of concealed goto.
- (static)
- Feb. 22, 2003, 05:03:45 AM EST
Scott's closest, but not even he got it - my fault, though:
- (CRConrad)
- Feb. 23, 2003, 05:52:26 PM EST
VB does some things right
- (tablizer)
- (6)
- Feb. 25, 2003, 08:59:17 PM EST
If I'm not mistaken...
- (ChrisR)
- (1)
- Feb. 25, 2003, 11:13:58 PM EST
poor substitute for Boolean expressions
- (tablizer)
- Feb. 26, 2003, 03:00:17 PM EST
Well, close. But cooler is the range stuff
- (tseliot)
- (3)
- Feb. 26, 2003, 02:03:07 AM EST
Fugly syntax kind'a repeats itself: YTF "select" AND "case"?
- (CRConrad)
- (2)
- Feb. 26, 2003, 06:34:26 AM EST
Not trying to imply invention
- (tseliot)
- Feb. 26, 2003, 11:44:38 AM EST
Pascal was invented before Visual BASIC
- (orion)
- Feb. 26, 2003, 08:09:43 PM EST
One more thing:
- (jb4)
- (2)
- Feb. 21, 2003, 02:17:54 PM EST
Constant vs an expression
- (ben_tilly)
- (1)
- Feb. 22, 2003, 02:55:32 PM EST
That's sorta what I figger...
-NT
- (jb4)
- Feb. 27, 2003, 09:16:11 AM EST
Comments and thoughts...
- (Simon_Jester)
- (5)
- Feb. 22, 2003, 12:33:27 AM EST
Along similar lines...
- (ChrisR)
- (1)
- Feb. 22, 2003, 12:44:30 AM EST
Multimorphism
- (tablizer)
- Feb. 25, 2003, 09:11:49 PM EST
Sometimes that's overkill.
- (static)
- Feb. 22, 2003, 05:11:36 AM EST
$foo->{$key}
- (admin)
- Feb. 22, 2003, 07:05:49 AM EST
You are probably thinking of
- (ben_tilly)
- Feb. 22, 2003, 02:54:15 PM EST