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CDP1802 wrote: what motivated Eratosthenes[^] to calculate the planet's circumference
To find out how far he had to go to get away.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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So now we have three candidates who may have played that little joke on us. God, the devil or perhaps Charles Darwin (standing for evolution, of course).
Evolutional algorithms have a tendency to fulfill their directives to the letter, but not to the way they were intended. My prime suspect is evolution.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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TFTD means Terror From the Deep to me (follow up from the X-COM game UFO Enemy Unknown)!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Someone is trying to learn C in advance of his course which starts in the new year.
Good idea, possibly.
So...he has downloaded a copy of TurboC 4...and it's not working quite as he expects...
That's what? 20 years old?
I'm amazed it runs on a modern OS!
That has to be a record: unless you know someone who found a copy of QuickC for DOS and got it to install under Win7?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, at least he tried... And in case you're planning to help him: awww yisss, history goodness![^]
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
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}
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I just Googled QuickC for DOS - I used to love that program - and found it on an abandonware site!
I can't believe MS have given it away, but if they have...gawd but I'm tempted!
Got any 5.25" floppies? And a floppy drive?
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Virtual Floppy Drive...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I just Googled QuickC for DOS - I used to love that program - and found it on an abandonware site! ... Aaaaaand, it Does work in DosBox!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Damn it!
Now I've spent the whole morning trying to get it working!
It works, but for some reasons DosBox insists that the BIN folder is the C:\ root drive, so it can't find the "Includes" folder...grrrr....back to the fight...I'll beat this, I will...
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Yes!
It works!
"Hello World", The QuickC version lives!
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OriginalGriff wrote: So...he has downloaded a copy of TurboC 4
From the Smithsonian?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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I had to install a copy of VC 6 (or something like that) a couple years ago. On a then modern machine, the compiler was so screaming fast it seemed to compile the C++ code before I even it the build button.
I think we've lost something, tools that now require horsepower, disk space and memory that would cripple a system 10+ years ago.
Marc
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We have lost a lot in "raw power" - but by heck we have gained a lot in development support! Intellisense alone is worth a huge amount of compiler slowdown, and then there is "on the fly" compilation allowing us to change code while debugging.
I am happy losing compilation speed to gain those two things alone!
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Isn't that a 16-bit program? How could he get it to run on a modern OS?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I loved QuickC for DOS. I used it as my source editor for a long time, even though I was using Watcom C/386 and Microsoft C 7.0 for my tool chain. It was quick (pardon the pun), loading in under a second. It supported editing two files at once (unbelievable convenience), and I could even program the hot keys to whatever I liked.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You want to try it in DosBox on a modern PC! Good grief but it's quick!
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Sadly, Turbo C++ was what was used for C++ in the college I graduated from in 2004. I got in touch with a younger student there several years later (at least 3 or 4 years back from present) and they were still using that.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Given that Visual studio has (very cheap) student editions and (free) Express editions, that says a heck of a lot about the college and the likely quality of it's tutors...
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I would bet real money they're still using TC++. I'll be visiting my hometown in a week... might just pop over and find out for myself
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the other colleges were using it too
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Scare 'em. Take a lappie with VS Express loaded and show teh students what they will really be working with...
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But, but, but, VS doesn't have TurboVision!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Sadly in my country (in two of our "top" technical universities), Turbo C++ is still used. You just need to spend some time install BorlandC compiler and you are the man/woman. Web design is recommended to be used with tables and we can really impress the folks at AutoDesk, showing them how to run AutoCAD 2006 and SolidWorks 2008 simultaneously on a P3 machine with XP and 512 RAM in the best case scenario
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Which country is this? Surely you can't be from the US like it says in your profile?
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Greetings from Bulgaria. Although our IT and Engineer students indeed are knowledgeable and remarkable, our education system is a nightmare.
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I totally know what you mean by the last sentence - it's the same here. If there are good students, it's despite the education system, not because of it.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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