Re: need a code bit

Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc
Date	2012-09-07 15:29 -0700
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Subject	Re: need a code bit
From	Ben Yates <winston19842005@yahoo.com>

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On Friday, September 7, 2012 7:01:04 AM UTC-4, ne...@rtrussell.co.uk wrote:
> On Sep 2, 3:09 pm, Gandalf  Parker
> 
> <gand...@the.dead.ISP.of.Community.net> wrote:
> 
> > I dont care if it runs all night as long as I can easily understand it. :)
> 
> 
> 
> I would say that's untypical.  Most of my BASIC programs are speed-
> 
> sensitive to some degree, so when there is a straightforward way to
> 
> increase the speed without significantly impairing the readability I
> 
> will use it.

I know what he means. I'd let my old TI chug out something overnight. Sometimes stuck something in the keyboard so when it came to a prompt it would keep going.

About 10% of the time I'd wake up to a screeching noise telling me it had locked up.

I worked at a business that sold mailing lists. One of their LARGE Basic programs, in GW-Basic, cleaned up mailing lists... changing case, adding/removing punctuation, and gender-guessing to add titles.

We'd run these overnight...

I was young and stupid. I was the night "Systems Administrator". Meaning I got to take the garbage out, literally.

And run these programs...

But then I brought in a copy of QuickBasic Compiler... and the job went away. I got stuck for a couple of months on day shift, feeding the envelopes to the printers, stuffing envelopes, and then got let go...

This is back around 1989...

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    Re: need a code bit Gandalf  Parker <gandalf@the.dead.ISP.of.Community.net> - 2012-08-26 13:39 +0000
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            Re: need a code bit Ben Yates <winston19842005@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-07 15:29 -0700
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