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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Richard Marchetti writes: <snip> (...) <snip> Yikes!!! Programmers are way too serious. I have heard of not being able to take a joke, but come on... :-) Jude (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Is it perl or C? (was: Re: Programming Brain Teaser)
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(...) Here's one that's MUCH better-- 'course most of you may have seen this already... someone made code equivalent to UNIX's wc command that can be compiled and run the exact same in perl and C... this one was really clever: (Grrr, it's gonna put (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Yeah, and maybe I am going to have to kick this guy until he is dead. His solution was: printf("abcdefghijkl...tuvwxyz"); // ;("abcdefghijklmnopq...yz")ftnirp Which I would like to point out doesn't print anything in the second instance (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Language Choice
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(...) It depends what you're doing this for and what you're doing with it. If you're happy with VBA and wish to expand in that direction, Visual Basic is probably a fine choice. (I haven't used it since 1.0, so I can't really say too much about it.) (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well the obvious answer is ";", but that's a bit too simple. I can't think of anything else that doesn't involve several variable and/or function definitions elsewhere. (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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If you already know VBA then I'd suggest you use Visual Basic. While it's not as powerful as something like Visual C++ it is remarkably good for building small utilities really quickly. I have been using Visual Basic for nearly 5 years and I'm (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Is ';' a "statement", though? (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Programming Language Choice
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Recently, I have gotten quite a bit of experience programming in VBA due to a database I designed for work. I have had experience programming in several languages before but haven't used it to much until now. I now have a desire to program for (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) thx (...) I may be dense too, just thought of it a ; on a line alone fits exactly the definition as stated. Going to sleep now before I think of more [/:-) DaveG (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:FzMpLH.K8A@lugnet.com... (...) Jacob, there is a problem with your tracert - if you compare it to Frank's tracert and my own you'll see that the packets take different paths (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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