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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Microsoft gave the help to port enterprise-scale applications to VB6...
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: My boss felt for it
And there's your problem. As professional geeks, it's OUR job to look at a tool/language/framework and see how it should be used.
This is how it's supposed to happen:
Company X: "This is awesome and can do everything!"
Your Boss: "This is awesome and can do everything, and I'm not saying that because they gave me a bribe completely non-conditional gift! Let's use this for everything!"
You: "This is a horrible idea, and if we actually use this, we'll probably all end up getting fired/bankrupted"
Your Boss: "Oh, ok then. I gotta go. I have a meeting with Company Y."
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Almost perfect dialog...except the last line...
(and 18 years ago a was pretty fresh)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Oh, the last line was just my way of saying "GOTO start" 
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Marc Clifton wrote: e.TerminalType *= f.TerminalType
I've been forced to use that format when writing for older Oracle systems.
So, it may not be the language that is/was the issue, it may be the data source.
The implication being.. such a join may be seen in other languages like C, C#, etc.
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I recently encountered ( +) in an Oracle query.
It's the same thing, except this query was written a week earlier... 
I had never seen that syntax by the way, not in Oracle or SQL Server 
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The *= syntax is Sybase, SQL Server until 2000 and Access
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... aaand back to therapy...
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I never did that myself, even though it seemed to be all the rage.
But it's normal for common coding conventions to be superseded by others (most of which are not genuinely better; just different), and for the superseded conventions to be reviled.
It's a "The Winner Writes the History Books" thing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: e.TerminalType *= f.TerminalType
Isn't that just e.TerminalType = e.TerminalType * f.TerminalType ?
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In code, yes. In SQL that's an old-style JOIN syntax.
http://sqlmag.com/t-sql/old-join-syntax-vs-new
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We have a story (Gah! I hate Agile terminology.) to remove all those from our codebase. There are enough to make that a 2 sprint story.
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Hi All,
Still in new job mode, after some early success with the Hardware issues I have now been given the issue of the software bug that is halting work on a new product. I can after a mornings worth of installs confirm the software works on the demo board.  Now to run it on the board and see what is missing and why it does not work  It's gonna be a three ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) job at least, possibly a ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) job too.
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As long as it doesn't turn in to a hard liqueur job.
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Will you change your name to 'PUB' before or after getting the ?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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...Anybody[^]??? 
SFW
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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01001000 01100001 00100000 01101000 01100001 00100000 01101000 01100001 00100001 00100001
Jeremy Falcon
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What's so funny about that? I'm building a little computer of this[^] sort. Guess what the row of eight switches at the bottom is for.
Personally I prefer hexadecimal[^] over binary input.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Hex is for people that wear sandals (can count toes when fingers no enough),
octal though still fits in the hands...
but above both limited to 1 digit.
In binary, can use fingers to count up to 255... include the thumbs and it's 1023.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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Forget the sandals. With graphics like this[^] the little computer taught me to convert binary to hex long ago.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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At university that's how we learned assembler. We wrote it on paper, converted it to hex then input the hex directly into memory via the switches. Can't get any lower a level of programming than that!
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I know. Over the weekend I worked on a BIOS/diagnostic for the little computer I'm building. That's how I began and still prefer to work.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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At last. The long search is over!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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