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Makes me think of a colleague of mine in the mid 80s. He is a DBMS man and a regular visitor to the VLDB (Very Large Data Bases) conference, and was for several years trying to get close to the great DBMS guru Jim Gray, hoping to touch his coat. Then one day, Gray came striding directly towards him with a big grin on his face: "Hi, is it so that you are a Norwegian? I know of no people more fun to get drunk with than Norwegians! Come along!"
Now the two became close personal friends for the rest of Grey's life, so there is nothing to be sad about. But I guess lots of people would get shocked if the first thing their idol says directly to them is "Come, let's get drunk together!"
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1: advice I live by... except now! There's a spider in my code!!! Aghhhhhhh!!!
2: I've found the worst developers are the ones that know everything there is to know about the language and absolutely bugger all about developing apps that people can actually use!
3: Indeed.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: everything there is to know about the language and absolutely bugger all about developing apps that people can actually use!
agreed.
They often have multiple certifications.
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Hi!
It's clear where he copied #1 from! Though he forgot the towel. It's just not the same thing without a towel!
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Super Lloyd wrote: It's clear where he copied #1 from!
You are correct.
The next chapter starts on the next page after that advice and includes the quote from Hitchhiker's.
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and of course, this can be translated to almost anything in life, not just C++.
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Time flies. It sure doesn't feel that long ago.
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It is still probably the best $189 I ever spent! (as far as roi)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Actually, I believe it is older than that.
I used it for an app under Windows 95. (Visual C++ / MFC).
Back when it was called Visual Studio 1.x, 2.x, etc. Only in 2000, I think did they start calling it Visual Studio 20xx. Just thought it was interesting.
Edit
I am wrong. I guess it was called something different than what I was thinking back then. Hmmm...
Microsoft Visual Studio - Wikipedia[^]
Edit 2
I guess this is what I'm thinking about...
Visual C++ 2.0, which included MFC 3.0, was the first version to be 32-bit only. In many ways, this Visual C++ 2.x also supported Win32s development....
Visual C++ 2.1 and 2.2 were updates for 2.0 available through subscription.
Visual C++ 4.0, released on 1995-12-11[12] introduced the Developer Studio IDE
from Visual C++ - Wikipedia[^]
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Yeah, Microsoft C++ used that IDE all the way back in 1993-4-5 and I was thinking it was named Visual Studio but probably not. I think it was just called Visual C++. The old IDE been around a long time.
I remember Visual Basic 1.x released and was a separate IDE you installed and used. Interesting.
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First coding job was using the Microsoft C 5.1 compiler. You had to drop out of windows to build stuff.
Had to have different autoexec.bat file for compiling, debugging, using windows.
Our mantra was "Boot, boot, boot, boot, boot."
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I was programming in C with the Lattice compiler around 1984 when Microsoft bought that compiler and turned it into Microsoft C.
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Same here. Lattice and another cross-compiler whose name I can't remember.
You can't win.
You can't break even.
You can't quit.
You're welcome.
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Not according to Wikipedia:
Microsoft first released Visual Studio ... in 1997
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah, it's interesting history. Do you remember Visual Interdev for IIS web extension development?
It was yet another separated IDE. All those memories collapse together and it seems like I've been using Visual Studio all the way back.
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raddevus wrote: Do you remember Visual Interdev for IIS web extension development?
Oh yes. I think I even used it once or twice. (That's probably why I still prefer to do web stuff in Notepad++!)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I started with Visual Studio 6 doing C++ and MFC. Until now, I had NO IDEA that there was only 1 prior version!
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Right. That's how I felt.
Haha. I honestly remember installing Visual (whatever it was called ) 1.0. I'm not kidding.
Oh, before that, the "old guys" had installed something like Microsoft C 7.0 for Windows API dev.
I also remember installing version 1.0 of Visual Basic from three 3.5" floppies.
Great stuff.
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I remember the beta when it came out, the disk was available free with the purchase of some magazine, don't remember the mag. Kept the disk for yeas!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Time's fun when you're having flies!
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kmoorevs wrote: sql == sql right? Well.. SQL is a querying standard. And the standard to that standard is SQL92. Which MySQL does not support, might be too new still.
kmoorevs wrote: So far, I hate Joomla! Is there an option to say "this Joomla thing has to go"?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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