just because it compiles doesnt excatly mean it will work
ent1ty wrote:success is a matter of concentration and desire
at a cost measure in computer resourcesButler Lampson wrote: all problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection


/*
I am very sorry for this. It's not a nice solution, but hey ... this is not a nice program. Sometimes
it happens that something is lost somewhere in the dark and scary depths of the multithreaded message
processing system this whole bunch of s!#& ... bunch of code relies on. I haven't been able to fully
follow the problem, but sometimes a job remains in the job list shown to the user although it was
already processed and therefore the source file was deleted. So here we are: we just check the list of
shown jobs for jobs that have already been processed. If such a zombie job - let's call it "Steve" - is
there we'll find it with this small code section here and put Steve where he belongs.
*/
//Comments are for sissies, so we're not going to use them.
//Oops
Brainsaw from another thread wrote:Good code is self-documenting. But as self-documenting is not *really* enough is have pushed this one step further, my code is not only self-documenting, even the machine code generated by any compiler is still self-documenting.
// proprietary random number generator (C) Microsoft
int getRandomNumber(void)
{
return 42;
}
lazerblade wrote:
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// proprietary random number generator (C) Microsoft
int getRandomNumber(void)
{
return 42;
}
lazerblade wrote:
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// proprietary random number generator (C) Microsoft
int getRandomNumber(void)
{
return 42;
}
And what does a comma do, a comma does nothing but make easy a thing that if you like it enough is easy enough without the comma. A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period that lets you stop and take a breath but if you want to take a breath you ought to know yourself that you want to take a breath. It is not like stopping altogether has something to do with going on, but taking a breath well you are always taking a breath and why emphasize one breath rather than another breath. Anyway that is the way I felt about it and I felt that about it very very strongly. And so I almost never used a comma. The longer, the more complicated the sentence the greater the number of the same kinds of words I had following one after another, the more the very more I had of them the more I felt the passionate need of their taking care of themselves by themselves and not helping them, and thereby enfeebling them by putting in a comma.
So that is the way I felt about punctuation in prose, in poetry it is a little different but more so …
— Gertrude Stein
from Lectures in Americacobra wrote:GUI interface in Visual Basic to track an IP address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
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