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The Worst Programming Language Ever. Mark Rendle has a try at designing it. If you have an hour to waste. (I watched in a window while I did something useful else.) vcFBwt1nu2U But he does miss one construct!

Recent posts in the "Dear Users... (A thread for Sysadmin, Technical Support, and Help Desk people)" thread have prompted a number of us to post about things that seem to have become ingrained in our minds from many decades ago. Examples include weird stuff about IBM JCL, its syntax, and...

Wondering if anyone here can give me some suggestions... I'm working on modifying a web application that uses CSS files. The original coder used embedded images within the application. (For example, instead of calling an external file to be a background image, they use...

So I recently took a new job after being with the same company for nine years. I did fine there, but it was basically the same thing all the time, several different applications all basically set up the same way. Once I could fix one, I could fix them all. But my new job is taking over a single...

For various reasons it's time I actually learned how to program but I'm not sure where to begin. I've not written a line of code other than HTML since Commodore BASIC on a C64. For the project I'm going to be helping my stepson with I need to find tutorials and primers for C# Sharp. Can anyone...

Hi all, I don't know jack about programming, with the exception of QBasic which I've almost entirely forgotten. What I'd like to do is write a really tiny, simple, single-window program to calculate delay times. It would have a box to enter a number for BPM (say, .1 to 1000*), another box to...

A fable. A small company once hired an intern, and informed him one of his duties was to purchase a dozen doughnuts for the weekly company meeting. On the day of the meeting, the intern went to a local doughnut shop, fortunately located in the same building as was the business, and purchased...

As software development matures as a discipline, and as more and more solutions appear to address various problems, I find myself torn between an ugly plethora of choices. I read up on the latest developments, and am constantly told "this is the next big thing!" It's something everyone is...

When I read some binary data with pySerial, I get an str that contains elements that, when printed, look like this: '\xc0' That itself is a str. How do I turn it back into a number so I can do math on it? o int( '\xc0' ) chokes o The binascii library is useless as it can't handle this in...

Perhaps the best piece of work EDS has ever been associated with... UZq4sZz56qM

Since there's so many smart people reading and writing here I thought it might be worth a shot asking for a litle help: I've run into a nasty little problem at work with a tool that just not up tothe task its needed for, so I waswondering if I could do it better myself instead. Here's the...

void QMag::RemoveWord(u8 wordnum, bool answerquote) { char worktext[QMAG_MAX_QUOTE_LENGTH]; char* charpoint; char* charpoint2; int wordcount = 0; int wordlen = 0; int extrachar = 1; if(answerquote) { strcpy(worktext, m_answerText); } else {...

Anyone familiar with MacGap, an application for number theory on the Macintosh? I don't know much about programming, but I can take simple code and adapt it for my purposes. This saves time over doing things by hand. It would be useful to have some code that will do "mappings". This just...

I've been in IT in various roles for many years. I'm a decent sysadmin with a wide range of skills, I pick up new skills very quickly. I like to think I'm pretty smart too. I have a degree and I believe that I have above-average intelligence and a great thirst for knowledge. Except.... When...

I haven't done any programming since I dropped out of college (early 90s). Back then, the only languages I knew in depth were BASIC & COMAL. What is a good language for writing programs to work through fairly simple algorithms? I'd be mainly looking to calculate odds and probabilities...

I'm messing around with some input controls at the moment. Question, is there anything that would prevent me from taking a joystick axis such as a pressure sensitive shoulder button on a PC game controller and assigning different functions to different positions it could be in as opposed to...

I'm not a programmer at all, but my son, who is 14, has been teaching himself programming, mainly C++, with the goal of becoming a game programmer. Assuming that he has become somewhat proficient in C++, can anyone recommend a good book for the next step? Thanks