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Worked about 10 year with Modula 2.
Have read a lot of his parser stuff and compiler compiler.
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I did my final college project using Pascal - very rebellious for that time of COBOL...
Simply fascinated me the language
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Did my final graduate project in PL/I which at the time was considered IBM's entry to their world. Our professor preferred Pascal and/or Algol 60, which I used frequently, but they were not commercially useful in US at that time, mid to late 70's, so he pushed PL/I. It had all the same concepts and then some as Pascal and Algol. I turned into a full fledged C programmer while using PL/I and COBOL to make money. Fortran served me well in the tech world of engineering. Wrote some pretty aggressive code using Fortran. Now I use only C, but I am retired. C++ not so much.
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RIP, Niklaus, and thank you for your invention of Pascal. Without any competition, Pascal is, by far, the best language I have used in the almost 50 years since I started programming. The C family has nothing to offer that can compare to the functionality and readability of Pascal.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: functionality and readability
Are frequently at odds with other things which C is really good at.
I haven't used Pascal since college, it never paid the bills.
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That certainly true; it never caught on. I used it for electronics testing in Aerospace, where maintainability is paramount, and there is no better language for readability. Alas, it lacked a lot of the bare metal programming capability that the C family brought to the table, and that was its doom, I suspect.
Will Rogers never met me.
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And the 255-character string limit?
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That was never a problem when I was actively programming, and I believe that was extended as part of their adoption of OOP with version 5.5+. Back in those days, testing was performed by setting up instruments with string commands, then triggering them with events generated by the test code. Reports were collected by reading instrument registers, so string length was never an issue. I was happy with the introduction of named Calls at the time, as everything the company I worked for used procedure calls that had numbers, and the only way to find out how to call them with parameters was to beg the Systems Programming group for documentation on a particular Call. Strange times, and everything was proprietary and dynamic; it wasn't unusual to use three programming languages on one Project. We are so very much better off today!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Joke? pure horror!
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Clippy + HAL
I'm sorry Dave I can't let you compose that sentence, it's not grammatically correct.
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
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I miss Clippy. He was always, and is apparently still good for a laugh.
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Why could they not see the writing on the Windows? 
Oh, I know this one was goofy, even by my standards 
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Just came back (see above)
Glad to see you around Paul.  
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Thanks!
I'm easing into it ... but I'm getting there.
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Years ago I ripped most of my purchased DVD collection, to VOB files in AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders, so if I were so inclined to re-burn them to DVD, these would be compatible with "regular" players.
They're taking quite a bit of room however (4.37GB for a full single-layer disc, twice for dual-layer), and I know the h.265 codec is a lot more efficient than the old MPEG-4 used by DVDs.
I know there's a lot of programs that probably can convert those, even though h.265 is really designed for higher-resolution videos. My problem is trust - can I trust that the conversion will be done correctly? What I mean by that, is that I've seen conversions where audio and video would slowly start to drift, so much that by the time a 2-hour movie ends, the audio is "off" by a few seconds with the video being played back. And I know the source is okay. Worse, if I quickly jump to various parts in the video, this is NOT apparent, so the only way I can really tell whether a converted video suffers from this is to watch it from start to finish.
Obviously I don't want to do that with a few hundred discs.
Has anyone done this sort of conversion before (specifically, with the h.265 codec), and can vouch that the program used does NOT introduce this sort of problem?
I don't really care about preserving menus, extras, subtitles, alternate audio tracks, etc. If I can end up with a single, much smaller .mkv or .mp4 file (over a set of 4+GB folders with multiple VOB files), I'll be happy.
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The only one I've ever used is from Leawo.
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