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Hi All,
Working on a 'new' 'wizzy' version of a product that has been in the field for years (possible decades). In a set of updates I was working with a guy who was part of the furniture and since retired with the line 'See ya suckers!'. When he disappeared I said an it's on record I said 'it might be an idea if someone rewrote or at least looked at it while said programmer was around' and was ignored.
So we have now a C++ Kernal written by a Fortran programmer.... 
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Could be worse: COBOL anyone?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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COBOL(lcks) true, but the two character names I just love.
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OTOH, I've always found that no matter how good a hand-over is, it's never good enough.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I've always found that no matter how good a hand-over is, it's never good enough.
You lucky people even have handovers? Here I only recieve the the team project name in tfs and the production url. Best part of it is that, at the same time, I also inherit client's who have no idea how the application is expected to work(In new recruits), so we both learn together and redefine the requirements in change requests
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Looxury! There were eight-teen of us working on a septic product!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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better hurry, try to get it done before .Net core 4 comes out
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I don't quite get this...
.NET Core is supposed to be multi-platform, right?
And now they're including technology that is not multi-platform...
If they include just a little bit more it's just .NET Framework again, but with some multi-platform parts.
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The box has been ticked, so they can now get back to business as usual.
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The .NET Core runtime is definitely cross platform, but it's always been possible to write .NET Core libraries that only work on one platform. You can PInvoke Win32 and GDI functions in a .NET Core application today, and that definitely won't work anywhere other than Windows.
This is sort of the same thing - .NET Core itself is still cross platform, but if you want to make a WPF or WinForms app, you'll have to add a few Windows specific DLLs to your app bundle to make it happen. It probably makes sense to look at the WPF and WinForms functionality as NuGet packages that you can pull in when you need them. I think in one of the demos Scott Hunter did, he just added WinForms as a package reference in the csproj file.
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The .NET core remains multiplatform.
But it now has the opportunity to use platform specific code, when available.
Of course the result application (using platform specific code) is not multiplatform hey?
This, however, comes with many advantage for the application developer. You can take advantage of .NET Core functionality in your platform specific app, such as:
- performance enhancement
- self contained deployment (doesn't depends on OS version of .NET)
- native compilation.
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Because .NET Framework 4.8 wont support many of the new features .NET Core 3.0 will.
.NET Framework will move much slower and isn't compatible with .NET Standard 2.1 and thus for new projects looking to take advantage of new .NET Standard 2.1+ features and use WPF on Windows for Win32 apps, you will need to target .NET Core 3.0+ which has a newer .NET Runtime.
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Some of the members here are grumpy old farts who are anything by trendy. 
The biscuits and coffee do look tasty. 
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Grumpy old fart, that's me 
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I even have the coffee mug to prove it. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's not a cooky, mate. This[^] is a cooky
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I'm glad you've found culture and enlightenment, but no, you never use Tea in a Tim Tam Slam. Ever.
And the instructions should be more accurate: you bite off the corners - about 1cm each end, biting off diametrically opposite ends. You can bite off the entire end if you are careful and only bite off the minimum, but we all know through Bernoulli's equation that fluid flow increases with decreasing cross sectional area, so go the corners not the full end.
Bah humbug. Kids these days.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Cheers for that. I've withdrawn my offer to take him on as a technical writer.
That was a close one.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I know that plastic straws are considered bad these days, but using a chocolate biscuit instead seems a bit of an overreaction.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I used to do this with a cup of tea and a Gold bar, some kind of wizardry ensues! 
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Coffee only, possibly hot chocolate but that seems redundant. Timing is critical, too long and you need a tea spoon to slurp up the slurry. Oh and OG is correct, use the corners.
If you have smoked for the last 30 years forget it, you no longer have the lung capacity to lift the coffee through the biscuit.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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