What's up, didn't you like the "Funny" mod you got the last time you posted this?
I must admit I found this site disconcerting - I'm unlikely to buy design tools from people who look (on this site) like they are in the "manic" phase of their bi-polar disorder...
"the small European software developers will have a very difficult time."
Why, is Vista dropping support for Win32 apps? I though not. Will European developers not have access to the.NET framework? Too late. What is this "difficult time" of which you speak? Not having Mickysofts latest DRM? Ooh, I'm scared. [/sarcasm]
If you would have looked around their site you would have dicovered that:
1) it is free for personal use
2) they do not currently have commercial terms for this product
I also wonder what kind of world you live in where you think professional programmers do not deserve to make a living from their trade. If daddy gave me 100K a year, I might think so too.
There are a number of programming languages in use in financial institutions (cobol, pl/1) that offer built-in support for decimal arithmetic. It makes sense in some cases, but also has a drawback: e.g. the type 'decimal fixed(15,6)' always has 15 positions of which 6 are after the decimal point. This type always automatically rounds, constantly, which may lead to inaccuracies just as well.
Er, no. If you want rounding in COBOL, you explicitly say so by adding ROUNDED to the statement.
Even with financial calculations, floating point numbers often are the best and only choice. Your algorithm will have a known accuracy even if you have very small or big intermediate results.
No, never use floats for financial calculations, unless you use an algorythm to fix the known inaccuracy in the calculation, and do not compile with optimisation (which will assume it knows better than your code). Even using strict integers or packed decimals can run into some rounding problems; adding a couple of decimal places during the calculation phase can solve most of these, but cannot eliminate them completely, so sometimes you have to find a method of handling the stray pennies.
the author is only a couple of years out of college and he is already well on his way to be becoming a professional troll. I see a bright future for him...
Maybe your fear of function calling is related to the fear of global variables prevelent in many languages. Usually because some self-appointed authority said they were "bad".
Like that "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" by Dijkstra, what a prat, what damaged programming he caused.
The level of independence of the member states helps. Since they don't trust each other, they are more likely to come up with an acceptable standard. While there are reasonable levels of co-operation between their respective security services, there is no top level organisation comparable with the NSA or the Chinese equivelent.
well I'm not going to rewrite all my five+ year old pages to use the new div tag! It would be nice if I could identify a header to support the old rules though...
Something I don't understand about about the W3 rules - why is the font tag considered subordinate to the paragraph tab, forcing you to repeat it for each paragraph?
Maybe it makes a crap browser coder's life a bit easier, but every browser already supports the fact that the two concepts are entirely independent, so what is the point of this pedantic rule?
Hey, quit insulting COBOL! COBOL is lean & mean compared to that bloated Virtual Machine. While the OOPs paradigm is useful for GUI interfaces, it can cripple data access. BTW, have the Java GUIs stopped sucking yet?
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Plus vi has that "useful" "feature" that it completely ignores RCS protection, making a nonsense of version control.
Mac users on average pay more for their computers, are self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer
In my experience Mac users know bugger all about technology, and care more about furnitures than they do about computing.
There may be exceptions in their established graphic artists user base, but even they are more likely to be "gadget collectors" rather than tech-heads.
one of the few advatages of COBOL is that SQL sytax is clean, and not restricted by any language quoting rules. If you run into this sort of nonsense a lot, it might be worth coding your SQL in COBOL subroutines you can invoke from *insert favorite language here*.
later versions of COBOL included the optional END-IF (and END-PERFORM for inline PERFORM's) as well as a CASE statment. Periods are only now required if the next statement is a section or paragraph name, or to tell a NEXT SENTENCE statement where to go. As someone who has worked with both versions, I always use END-IFs because it makes it a lot simpler to read and maintain.
It should be pointed out that lawyers are wrong 50% of the time. This of course only refers to when they believe in a case suffuciently to take it to court - but if they don't test the case in court, their opinion is unproven.
Of course if you have automatic update configured to "inform me when there are updates" instead of "automatically download & install updates", you can simply uncheck this PoS from the download list, when it will prompt you to request it not remind you about this later. The description of it in the list even honest enough to tell you what a PoS it is!
Even though I am running a legit version, I see no reason to permit Microsoft to waste even more processing cycles on my box than they already are.
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Sailing to the north pole is only of interest to a few scientists.
More importantly, have the fabled North-East or North-West passages opened up as viable trade routes?
What's up, didn't you like the "Funny" mod you got the last time you posted this?
I must admit I found this site disconcerting - I'm unlikely to buy design tools from people who look (on this site) like they are in the "manic" phase of their bi-polar disorder...
"JavaLord"? is that like a "VB Guru"?
unless pop is a career criminal, in which case he probably said "I'm proud of you son, you've got those durned slashdotters all riled up!"
s'ok, we will just get the copies we need from...
"the small European software developers will have a very difficult time."
.NET framework? Too late.
Why, is Vista dropping support for Win32 apps? I though not.
Will European developers not have access to the
What is this "difficult time" of which you speak? Not having Mickysofts latest DRM? Ooh, I'm scared. [/sarcasm]
If you would have looked around their site you would have dicovered that:
1) it is free for personal use
2) they do not currently have commercial terms for this product
I also wonder what kind of world you live in where you think professional programmers do not deserve to make a living from their trade. If daddy gave me 100K a year, I might think so too.
Canada doesn't really count as a "foreign" country. Well, except Quebec.
Now if you could get a Mexican team involved, you could at least call it the North American Series.
Baseball is dull. But it just can't compete with Cricket, which is truely monumentally dull.
There are a number of programming languages in use in financial institutions (cobol, pl/1) that offer built-in support for decimal arithmetic. It makes sense in some cases, but also has a drawback: e.g. the type 'decimal fixed(15,6)' always has 15 positions of which 6 are after the decimal point. This type always automatically rounds, constantly, which may lead to inaccuracies just as well.
Er, no. If you want rounding in COBOL, you explicitly say so by adding ROUNDED to the statement.
Even with financial calculations, floating point numbers often are the best and only choice. Your algorithm will have a known accuracy even if you have very small or big intermediate results.
No, never use floats for financial calculations, unless you use an algorythm to fix the known inaccuracy in the calculation, and do not compile with optimisation (which will assume it knows better than your code). Even using strict integers or packed decimals can run into some rounding problems; adding a couple of decimal places during the calculation phase can solve most of these, but cannot eliminate them completely, so sometimes you have to find a method of handling the stray pennies.
the author is only a couple of years out of college and he is already well on his way to be becoming a professional troll. I see a bright future for him...
Maybe your fear of function calling is related to the fear of global variables prevelent in many languages. Usually because some self-appointed authority said they were "bad".
Like that "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" by Dijkstra, what a prat, what damaged programming he caused.
I thought GTA was produced by a British company, although it does not suprise me that the Yanks try to claim it and take all the cash...
The level of independence of the member states helps. Since they don't trust each other, they are more likely to come up with an acceptable standard. While there are reasonable levels of co-operation between their respective security services, there is no top level organisation comparable with the NSA or the Chinese equivelent.
I believe the "Monopoly" copyright expired back in the 90's, hence the many clones that appeared in the stores back then.
well I'm not going to rewrite all my five+ year old pages to use the new div tag! It would be nice if I could identify a header to support the old rules though...
Something I don't understand about about the W3 rules - why is the font tag considered subordinate to the paragraph tab, forcing you to repeat it for each paragraph?
Maybe it makes a crap browser coder's life a bit easier, but every browser already supports the fact that the two concepts are entirely independent, so what is the point of this pedantic rule?
If Erlang can keep a web server going under nearly infinite load
Hey, infinity is just around the next corner, I know it! We're nearly there!
Java is just too far behind. It's the new COBOL.
Hey, quit insulting COBOL! COBOL is lean & mean compared to that bloated Virtual Machine. While the OOPs paradigm is useful for GUI interfaces, it can cripple data access. BTW, have the Java GUIs stopped sucking yet?
Plus vi has that "useful" "feature" that it completely ignores RCS protection, making a nonsense of version control.
Mac users on average pay more for their computers, are self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer
In my experience Mac users know bugger all about technology, and care more about furnitures than they do about computing.
There may be exceptions in their established graphic artists user base, but even they are more likely to be "gadget collectors" rather than tech-heads.
one of the few advatages of COBOL is that SQL sytax is clean, and not restricted by any language quoting rules. If you run into this sort of nonsense a lot, it might be worth coding your SQL in COBOL subroutines you can invoke from *insert favorite language here*.
Doctor: Are you an alcoholic?
Me: No, I'm English!
later versions of COBOL included the optional END-IF (and END-PERFORM for inline PERFORM's) as well as a CASE statment. Periods are only now required if the next statement is a section or paragraph name, or to tell a NEXT SENTENCE statement where to go. As someone who has worked with both versions, I always use END-IFs because it makes it a lot simpler to read and maintain.
It should be pointed out that lawyers are wrong 50% of the time. This of course only refers to when they believe in a case suffuciently to take it to court - but if they don't test the case in court, their opinion is unproven.
Of course if you have automatic update configured to "inform me when there are updates" instead of "automatically download & install updates", you can simply uncheck this PoS from the download list, when it will prompt you to request it not remind you about this later. The description of it in the list even honest enough to tell you what a PoS it is! Even though I am running a legit version, I see no reason to permit Microsoft to waste even more processing cycles on my box than they already are.