You should have your own site -- this is some of the funniest lampooning of EU laws I've ever seen. It's up there with standardized bananas and condoms.
Maybe rave as in rave music? I didn't get that either.
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A few points: 1) The word maven is very irritating 2) I used Napster only a handful of times because I regard illegal filesharing as theft 3) I don't consider myself a culture "maven" but I am into music 4) Dancing with wolves? What on earth are you talking about?
No mind reading required, just reading. By the way, I found it interesting that you chose to drag OS/400 and the AS/400 into the mix. All I mentioned was indicators, a feature of the language (independent of the platform the language compiles on). Perhaps to offset the fact that the language is, dare I say, dull?
The AS/400 and OS/400 may shine, but please -- RPG/400? Without ILE features like service programs? Sure, it works in the same way that COBOL works. That doesn't mean it can't be bettered or replaced.
For example, Java under OS/400 is a speed demon. I had ten good years of fun and high income as an AS/400 developer using RPG, but eventually realized that IBM was repositioning the platform as a server and promoting Java as the development language, with good reason. So I made the switch.
Ralph, you're way off base. I worked on the 400 from 1988 through late 2000, on far bigger installations than yours, if we must have a p!ssing contest (Enterprise Rent-A-Car in St. Louis, used to own the biggest single north American cluster of AS/400s). I think ILE RPG is a decent language and environment and ideally suited to many business needs. I also know that it's a very productive environment. What I was specifically referring to, in a joking manner, was the RPG II-style use of indicators (and the cycle, for that matter).
A friend works for the intelligence branch of the Irish Army. They frequently listen in on calls between known republican militants suspected of involvement in terrorism.
Criticising the French for publishing the proceedings of the gathering in (gasp!) French... what were they thinking, using their own language? The comments about French public toilets (check out the johns in Amsterdam some time).
I lived in Haarlem for three years -- I know more about the Dutch than you think. While being brutally and rudely critical is the "national sport" (I thought that was skating on frozen canals!), it doesn't make it any more attractive.
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Reggie Perrin was pure comic genius!
I've never seen it spelled that way outside of the US; it must be American usage. Fair enough.
What exactly prevents creative Indians from the same? To think that you are inherently more creative or better in some other way verges on racism.
I did get the point; I was making fun of his analogy.
If you're running around the place beating people up, I suggest you get help.
Jesus Christ! It's "leery", not "leary". The latter is an Irish surname (mine to be precise).
You should have your own site -- this is some of the funniest lampooning of EU laws I've ever seen. It's up there with standardized bananas and condoms.
Asia is a continent, not a country.
Maybe rave as in rave music? I didn't get that either.
A few points:
1) The word maven is very irritating
2) I used Napster only a handful of times because I regard illegal filesharing as theft
3) I don't consider myself a culture "maven" but I am into music
4) Dancing with wolves? What on earth are you talking about?
The AS/400 and OS/400 may shine, but please -- RPG/400? Without ILE features like service programs? Sure, it works in the same way that COBOL works. That doesn't mean it can't be bettered or replaced.
For example, Java under OS/400 is a speed demon. I had ten good years of fun and high income as an AS/400 developer using RPG, but eventually realized that IBM was repositioning the platform as a server and promoting Java as the development language, with good reason. So I made the switch.
I couldn't agree with you more -- I specifically like Italian pizza because it isn't drowned in cheese.
The cankles and mustaches are a turn off with geek chicks though.
ITALY has the best pizza in the world. Everything else is a pale imitation.
Ralph, you're way off base. I worked on the 400 from 1988 through late 2000, on far bigger installations than yours, if we must have a p!ssing contest (Enterprise Rent-A-Car in St. Louis, used to own the biggest single north American cluster of AS/400s). I think ILE RPG is a decent language and environment and ideally suited to many business needs. I also know that it's a very productive environment. What I was specifically referring to, in a joking manner, was the RPG II-style use of indicators (and the cycle, for that matter).
Report Program Generator... one of the features of this language was indicators (basically booleans) that controlled a lot of the code. It was awful!
I hate that selfish bitch.
Indicator!?!?!? Shriek! Are you still developing in RPG?
A friend works for the intelligence branch of the Irish Army. They frequently listen in on calls between known republican militants suspected of involvement in terrorism.
You've been so brainwashed, referring to yourself as a consumer rather than a citizen.
Criticising the French for publishing the proceedings of the gathering in (gasp!) French... what were they thinking, using their own language? The comments about French public toilets (check out the johns in Amsterdam some time).
I lived in Haarlem for three years -- I know more about the Dutch than you think. While being brutally and rudely critical is the "national sport" (I thought that was skating on frozen canals!), it doesn't make it any more attractive.
Perhaps that's a measure of the company you keep.
Since people began using the word "legacy" as if it meant "shit I dislike".