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trønderen wrote: (I believe that I still have the QDOS manual somewhere down in my basement)
Lucky you. I would very much like to have back my original DOS 5.0 manuals.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Valve is finally leaving Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 behind. OK, *that* might get some people to upgrade
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A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's "And we liked it!"
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I guess anyone who has been in the software world for 30-40 years could produce a list of functions or capabilities, asking "Why did we leave that behind? And this? And this? I would love to have it in today's tools!
To give one example (sticking to IDEs): The very first debugger I used could single step not line by line but call by call. That was really useful to circle in the problem a lot faster than going line by line. I have never seen this in other debuggers. (Most likely some of you will now say 'Oh yes! Xyzzy-debugger has it!' I am referring to debuggers I have seen). The debug information contains all that is needed for offering this, so it could be provided.
Another nice feature of this debugger was that you could tell it to do line stepping on every line from 300 to 1200, and then drop line stepping from line 400 to 800, but rather do call level stepping in that range (or maybe no stepping). I am missing that as well.
Do you have other "long lost friends"?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: Do you have other "long lost friends"?
Yes! I miss FoxPro 2.0 for DOS. That debugger had line by line source stepping. It was the first time I had ever seen such a thing!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Wow, that brings back fond memories. Things were so much simpler then, and yet, oddly, just as difficult!
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I follow you!
Then, I have a strong feeling that a significant fraction of the complexity is self-inflicted. We are much to eager to show our cleverness in using fancy, complex mechanisms of our chosen programming language, modelling methodology or whatever. It seems as if we consider even the very simplest problem as requiring multiple classes, abstract and virtual, multiple inheritance, and subclasses in several levels. The rules of the pattern chosen adds it share of red tape. We make identifiers long and complicated to follow coding standards requirements, which also requires splitting the solution, which in informal pseudocode fits well within a single sheet, in twelve different files, each with their file headers and copyleft statements, namespace declarations and whathaveyou.
It is possible even today to write simple, straightforward code to solve simple (sub)problems. But you will probably make your co-programmer scream out in horror over all the deviations you have made from commonly accepted coding style and modelling methods.
When I write small programs for my private tasks, I still program in a simple style, which is quite different from how I program when the code will be seen / used by others.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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There are countless articles about Agile. And the use of agile. The usability. The statistics. Until the next last one
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The men who designed and crafted the first practical integrated circuit (IC), the type used in the computers to guide the Apollo spacecraft that made the first U.S. moon landing, were also the unintentional fathers of Silicon Valley. Just a smidge more powerful on Artemis
Love the photo in the article of a chip on the Apollo - "consisting of six transistors and eight resistors"
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While the computers may be more powerful, Artemis is actually a step backwards from Apollo. The Saturn 5 was able to actually land men on the moon and return them. Artemis can't do this.
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Google has officially announced it's ceasing support for Usenet groups on its Google Groups platform, a move partly attributed to the platform's increasing struggle with spam content. No News To Peruse
I'm trying to think of the last time I thought of NNTP... Mid-90s, maybe? Anyone still on there? alt.alt.alt.whatnot anyone?
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The choices in the X poll were WPF, WinUI 3, WinForms, and Raw Win32. We need more votes for DHTML applications!
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Don't forget MFC!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It’s a New Year, and a good time for a reminder of upcoming dates in the Visual Studio support lifecycle. Is your IDE on a pension?
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Windows 11 users will soon be able to access all their apps directly from the Start menu without navigating to the 'All apps' section. The current one is a false start
But please, please. Can we stop with stuff like, "We need to make Start menu great again"
And I'm curious - does anyone not switch the alignment over to left first chance they get?
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I went and got an after market product so I could put the whole task bar on the righ hand side of the screen where it belongs
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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"Standardized tools and platforms as well as advanced low- or no-code tech may enable all employees to become low-level engineers," suggests a recent report. All we are saying, is give AI a chance
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Brands are turning to hyper-realistic, AI-generated influencers for promotions. The replaced influencers have my AI-generated sympathy
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So human influencers will actually have to get a job now. My prediction is that most of them will starve.
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obermd wrote: My prediction is that most of them will starve.
And they won't be missed.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Developers love automating solutions to their problems, and with the rise of generative AI, this concept is likely to be applied to both the creation, maintenance, and the improvement of code at an entirely new level. Code, heal thyself
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One developer has sought to find the most efficient monitor orientation for programming, but it's not horizontal or vertical. I am askew
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The THAT machine is designed to encourage you to go beyond digital Sometimes 0 and 1 just aren't enough
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Fathers play a critical role in their children’s lives. Even something as simple as a dad joke can make the biggest difference. These may not be great jokes but every time you share a good bad joke with your kids you are making a great moment. Of course the US Government has a repository of bad jokes
How to separate them from the rest of the US Government is left as an exercise for the citizens.
Why put it in the newsletter? Because. (Although I suppose that pronouncement would have been better as a dad joke)
Or I guess expanded to: Because I was just amazed at some of the US Government websites and didn't feel like posting this to The Lounge (slow news week and all).
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The US taxpayer's dollars at rest. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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