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From: Jared on 7 Mar 2010 23:56 On Mar 5, 10:39 am, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard- newsgro...(a)NTLWorld.COM> wrote: > > But 0 is the start of computer indexing - at least in real programs. > > Real Programs are of course written by Real Programmers, and Real > Programmers know that even toy languages like Visual BASIC have OPTION > BASE 1. From this and later remarks, it is obvious that you are a > Quiche Eater. I expect that you even think that integer overflow is an > error to be avoided, instead of an opportunity for creative uses of > computed GOTO. Better yet: $[ = 42;
From: Phred Phungus on 10 Mar 2010 03:08
Jared wrote: > On Mar 5, 10:39 am, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard- > newsgro...(a)NTLWorld.COM> wrote: >>> But 0 is the start of computer indexing - at least in real programs. >> Real Programs are of course written by Real Programmers, and Real >> Programmers know that even toy languages like Visual BASIC have OPTION >> BASE 1. From this and later remarks, it is obvious that you are a >> Quiche Eater. I expect that you even think that integer overflow is an >> error to be avoided, instead of an opportunity for creative uses of >> computed GOTO. > > Better yet: $[ = 42; Whatever. The "real programmers" schtick goes back to Greg Lindahl. (misses Greg a bit) We had to write a perpetual calender as our final project in scientific programming at the Y in 1987. It had to output so as to look like a calender. It wasn't in fixed form, from my perspective; it was in the only form. I couldn't get the output right and took an incomplete. I took the class again immediately and finished within the first couple weeks with an A. I find it odd that strangers call me a noobie. I always think that Richard Maine must look like my instructor. If I had a nickel for everything that etched on my mind in the Eyring science, true, false, the awful smell of the meat in that one girl's daily sandwich .... |