Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: I think in FORTH & program in C/C++. Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 20:37:10 -0600 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net kIbJLd079DMyD4pVyuBsSwBuFfklUf2O7+ANKmcafTXivNk/Bq Cancel-Lock: sha1:mkQNjf6UxlbJKJN1pLdCha0GdrA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.setup:4556 comp.os.linux.advocacy:595029 sci.physics:833456 On 10/01/2021 02:32 PM, Clutterfreak wrote: > On 9/30/2021 9:40 PM, rbowman wrote: >> On 09/30/2021 08:33 AM, chrisv wrote: >>> rbowman wrote: >>> >>>> Jeff-Relf.Me@. wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I think in FORTH & program in C/C++; >>>>> naturally, people freak out when they see my source code. >>>> >>>> I can believe that... Reverse Polish Notation with Hungarian notation >>>> would be more cryptic than something was AES 256 encoding. >>> >>> Have you seen Relf's code? It's intentionally cryptic. It's >>> horrible. >>> >> >> I've seen enough terrible things in my life... We had a programmer >> that fell in love with macros. There really wasn't any code there >> until you ran it through a compiler. >> >> I think it was Ritchie who said that allowing macros in the language >> was one of his worst mistakes. It was such an innocent little idea... > > > I did VBA programming for about two years using Excel to handle and > solve warehouse problems. I don't know if the "macro" you mentioned > means same thing as a macro in Excel VBA, but every now and then I put > that feature into pretty nice use. When things would get too complicated > to automate, I'd just do them live manually with macro recording on, > then would study the funky codes that were generated. I always found in > them nice good clues as how to handle those situations, and created > fully structured and high quality additions to my programs with comments > and all. Not quite the same, I don't think but I don't know Excel. Supercalc was bundled on the Osborne and I never figured out how to use it. Still haven't figured out it's descendants. I've come to loathe Excel though. Too many people use it as a set of expandable pigeonholes as documentation that has nothing to do with the original intent.