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Marc Clifton28-Mar-23 2:17

Marc Clifton

28-Mar-23 2:17

glennPattonWork3 wrote:
No Intellisense, no way of quickly checking syntax programming like it was meant to be!

I simply can't imagine how I used to do programming without Intellisense. Then again, my office used to have several thick reference books that were always open and printouts of tech sheets on the hardware and microprocessors I was often working with. How things have changed.

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glennPattonWork328-Mar-23 2:45

28-Mar-23 2:45

I think I was one the last old school programmers, C (North C) on an Amiga 500 (2 Disk drives & 512K upgrade!). Once you got to be able to translate the 'almost' UNIX error messages Confused | :confused:

, I wasn't too bad...
Visual Studio and the like made us lazy!

PIEBALDconsult28-Mar-23 3:32

PIEBALDconsult

28-Mar-23 3:32

glennPattonWork3 wrote:
one the last old school programmers

Me too. Keepin' it real.
No Visual Studio on OpenVMS.

PIEBALDconsult28-Mar-23 2:43

PIEBALDconsult

28-Mar-23 2:43

Nice. That's how I do it, except I wrote my own little IDE so at least I can compile by clicking a button.

Visual Studio slows me down.

glennPattonWork328-Mar-23 2:45

28-Mar-23 2:45

Power shell IDE's are for weaklings! Unsure | :~

Off Topic I have written a test routine for some stepper motors that cause them to play the imperial march! Smile | :)

PIEBALDconsult28-Mar-23 2:54

PIEBALDconsult

28-Mar-23 2:54

glennPattonWork3 wrote:
Power shell

PTUI.

Getting back to Pascal

RickZeeland28-Mar-23 2:46

RickZeeland

28-Mar-23 2:46

After spending loads of time writing an installer in C#, my CEO decided to revert to Inno Setup (Pascal scripting) again ...
Dead | X|

glennPattonWork328-Mar-23 3:08

28-Mar-23 3:08

Twas beaten into me Pascal has no place in industry it compiles to P-Code... fast forward a few years and we have MSIL...

CPallini28-Mar-23 3:35

CPallini

28-Mar-23 3:35

RickZeeland wrote:
Pascal scripting

Toxic. I feel your pain.

"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto

glennPattonWork328-Mar-23 5:13

28-Mar-23 5:13

Dear

there's a script version?

RickZeeland28-Mar-23 5:41

RickZeeland

28-Mar-23 5:41

Yes, Inno Setup adds a lightweight Pascal scripting engine to your setup, it is quite good and flexible in fact. But as a C# programmer I find the Pascal syntax awful.

Gunnar Bakkene28-Mar-23 3:46

Gunnar Bakkene

28-Mar-23 3:46

Good for you my friend Smile | :)

WSO CCC OTD 2023-03-28

OriginalGriff27-Mar-23 21:28

27-Mar-23 21:28

Is she full of sailors? (6)

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter27-Mar-23 22:03

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

27-Mar-23 22:03

I would say TARTAR...

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OriginalGriff27-Mar-23 22:27

27-Mar-23 22:27

And I'd respond "NONO". Big Grin | :-D

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter27-Mar-23 22:39

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

27-Mar-23 22:39

:relieved:

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg

Rich Leyshon27-Mar-23 23:28

Rich Leyshon

27-Mar-23 23:28

OriginalGriff wrote:
Is she full of sailors? (6)

No, but surrounded by mechanics normally.

OriginalGriff27-Mar-23 23:45

27-Mar-23 23:45

There is a joke in there somewhere, but I'm not going near it in the lounge ... Unsure | :~

Richard MacCutchan28-Mar-23 0:25

Richard MacCutchan

28-Mar-23 0:25

Quote:
She was only the Admiral's daughter ...

OriginalGriff28-Mar-23 0:50

28-Mar-23 0:50

And I'm still not going there! Big Grin | :-D

pkfox28-Mar-23 1:15

pkfox

28-Mar-23 1:15

but her naval base...

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Re: WSO CCC OTD 2023-03-28 - we have a winner!

pkfox28-Mar-23 1:16

pkfox

28-Mar-23 1:16

Marina ?

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

OriginalGriff28-Mar-23 1:25