[AccessD] OT: Memory Lane. IBM Key Punch

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what better language to inflict pain and suffering than 'C'?.
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VBA and VB6! (when attempting to use them in the areas they are not designed
to be used in...)

So true!  Or 'C' when attempting to use it in areas not designed for.  Or
Fortran, or Lisp, or...


John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
Salakhetdinov
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 12:05 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Memory Lane. IBM Key Punch

John,

I did program on both Pascal and C first on PDP-11 (Soviet clone) then on
Turbo C and Turbo Pascal on IBM PC XT(Chinese clone :)) . Liked them both -
C and Pascal I mean - and Boralnd IDE was the best that times...

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what better language to inflict pain and suffering than 'C'?.
>>>
VBA and VB6! (when attempting to use them in the areas they are not designed
to be used in...)

Shamil

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at ColbyConsulting.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Memory Lane. IBM Key Punch


> >I just took C++ for a spin; man is it ugly.
>
> ROTFL.  You think it is ugly now, you should have seen it in the late 80s.
> I really started programming in earnest in Borland's Turbo Pascal in the
> early 80s.  By the late 80s Borland had a 'C' compiler.  Whereas Pascal is
a
> tightly typed language, the 'C' versions of the day made no effort to do
> type checking for parameters and such.  It was "intentional" (or so they
> said) since "REAL programmers" didn't need the compiler forcing them to do
> silly things like making sure that the variable type passed in was the
> variable type expected.  So you could pass in a float to an int and the
> compiler would just do a type conversion for you, no warning, no nothing.
>
> >I hate having to work that hard to write a program.
>
> Uhhhh... Yep!
>
> Of course you aren't a "REAL programmer" if you don't LOVE pain and
> suffering, and what better language to inflict pain and suffering than
'C'?.
> I'll bet you don't like pizza and mountain dew at 3 am while coding like a
> mad man either!
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause:
> http://folding.stanford.edu/

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