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Daniel Pfeffer28-Mar-23 9:36

Daniel Pfeffer

28-Mar-23 9:36

Obligatory xkcd: Real Programmers

Am I Yorkshiremen Nos. 3 and 4? Smile | :)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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jsc4228-Mar-23 22:46

jsc42

28-Mar-23 22:46

Actually, it is true! That is really how I wrote my first program.

Mircea Neacsu29-Mar-23 1:00

Mircea Neacsu

29-Mar-23 1:00

I didn’t doubt it. My comment just intended to be funny Big Grin | :-D

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I built my first punched tape reader from pieces of PCB welded together with solder. It had 9 LEDs and photodiodes for each channel and the sprocket hole was used as clock. You pulled the tape manually through the thing. A beautiful contraption Smile | :)

Mircea

jschell28-Mar-23 6:27

jschell

28-Mar-23 6:27

jsc42 wrote:
got it after I used to make my own by cutting strips of paper and using different size knitting needles

Probably the last time someone saw an update that actually really solved a problem.

obermd28-Mar-23 4:28

obermd

28-Mar-23 4:28

He's working in a Microsoft environment - he needs to use Edlin.

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 | :)

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OriginalGriff27-Mar-23 21:28

OriginalGriff

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...

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

OriginalGriff27-Mar-23 22:27

OriginalGriff

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