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Re: Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)

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Post by Zuider » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 10:24 AM UTC

zoom6628 wrote: post #73

jhbadger wrote: post #56

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But a similar quote about the young is completely real -- just not by Socrates (who after all wrote nothing), but rather by Aristotle -- Book II, Part 12 of his "Rhetoric" has him complaining about young people -- it's a long passage, but some gems "They have exalted notions, because they have not yet been humbled by life or learnt its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themse…

"Millenials" described to a tee. Socrates quote was also pretty much right on. "Millenial" might be the most ingenious modern scam amongst software vendors, marketing, and every other person hangle their shingle and selling the millenials-are-unique nonsense. Ive ranted before about this but as the learned ancients have already spoken about it then it should be obvious to all by now - each generation is more lenient…

In regard to ecmascript, have you considered Haxe?

Re: Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)

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Post by billfruit » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 7:42 PM UTC

creatornator wrote: post #82

billfruit wrote: post #37

Perhaps how much of MATLAB is influenced by Pascal,etc, but it is particularly clumsy and inelegant, as if it stuck in the 80's, not to mention proprietary, I wait for the day when we can move out of it.

Have you checked out Octave? They target (bug-for-bug?) compatibility with MATLAB, so most pure MATLAB code will port over with no edits necessary. It's also a GNU project

Well then all complaints about the MATLAB language also apply to Octave.

Re: Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)

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Post by zoom6628 » Mon, Apr 01, 2019, 4:08 PM UTC

Zuider wrote: post #91

zoom6628 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Millenials" described to a tee. Socrates quote was also pretty much right on. "Millenial" might be the most ingenious modern scam amongst software vendors, marketing, and every other person hangle their shingle and selling the millenials-are-unique nonsense. Ive ranted before about this but as the learned ancients have already spoken about it then it should be obvious to all by now - each generation is more lenient…

In regard to ecmascript, have you considered Haxe?

Thanks for the reminder and yes i have Haxe on my 'to review' list.

Re: Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)

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Post by sheikheddy » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

mysterydip wrote: post #48

sheikheddy wrote: post #29

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Actually, integers are a subset of the real numbers. I think you mean complex numbers with a non-zero imaginary component.

I'm so used to talking data types I forgot in math you're absolutely correct! Cooncidentally in Pascal, real and integer are the names of two numeric data types.

That's good to know! I was born after Pascal's peak, so I've never used it, so I wasn't aware that I was wrong in a sense :D