Re: More Funny Stuff From Joel

On 6/9/2024 1:56 PM, Joel wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
 

Not buying it, pal.  I don't believe you can still write C code to
accomplish those things.  You're way rusty!

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It would come back to me in mere moments.

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You're better than most programmers I know then. After being away from a
language for a while it's usually 'Duh, how do I start?' The worst case is
you've been using a somewhat similar language in the meantime.

  I majored in comp sci, I have used a number of languages, even
multiple platforms of assembly, just not in a long time.  I've done
amazing things with mIRC script's language.  It's not a hard thing for
me to pick up the process of coding, it *is* hard to think of an
original idea for something to code, though.

You just need to decide what interests you that a computer program would help you accomplish.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mIRC/comments/vril37/what_are_some_useful_mirc_scripts_in_2022/
https://www.dataquest.io/blog/python-projects-for-beginners/
https://projecteuler.net/
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
One of the very first python programs I wrote - a little over 8 years ago! - was to connect a pyodbc driver to an Access database and summarize the db file.
  2,099,101 rows
  114 tables  (max row = 600288)
  971 columns
    text:      503
    boolean:   4
    numeric:   351
    date-time: 108
    binary:    5
  309 indexes (25 foreign keys)
  333,549,568 bytes on disk
  Time: 0.19 seconds
Later, abusing cola 'advocates' by tossing their idiocy back in their faces spurred me to use python to download Usenet posts and put them into a relational database, from which I can extract drooling such as this from Feeb in Oct 2017:
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Beginning/top of post
"When you say standardization, you of course mean a standardized GUI
toolkit, and that is what Microshit has and that is what, admittedly
makes Microshit a better choice than GNU/Linux."
End of same post:
".. the GUI interface, and especially a STANDARD GUI, severely limits
the capabilities of any computing machine. That is why GNU/Linux. with
its non-standardized assortments of toolkits and libraries is the
superior choice."
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