1. Program problems
I don't understand how some of you guys (gals too, but the latter don't seem
to use the listserv much) manage to do any programming at all.
Years ago, in the late 1950s or early 1960s, I took a course in programming
the IBM 709, a vacuum-tube computer, or maybe it was the successor IBM 7090,
an early solid-state machine. That machine had a macro capability; you
could write a routine, give it a name like TIDDLY, and plug it into your
program in the form of a pseudo-instruction MACRO TIDDLY. Like all other
macros, properly used, it saved a lot of coding time.
But one person in the class (not I!) wrote a program that included the
instruction MARCO TIDDLY (or whatever his routine name was). The computer
rejected the program because it didn't know what MARCO was. The instructor
waved the offending code sheet in the air and shouted, "SPELLING IS IMPORTANT!"
The way some of your messages show up on the listserv, I should think you'd
flounder around for years without producing a program that would run, simply
because of all your speling -- er, speeling -- er, seplling -- errors -- you
know what I mean. You know, but computers are still incredibly stupid, and
they can't pick up stuff like this, while you can -- yes, even you.
How do you manage to do it?
Wally Riley
wryly at mindspring.com
2. Re: Program problems
Umm, your "constructive" point would be? Or hasn't a seasoned
professional like yourself learned the concept of "flame" or "spam". Let
the flames begin! (not)
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Wallace B. Riley wrote:
> I don't understand how some of you guys (gals too, but the latter don't seem
> to use the listserv much) manage to do any programming at all.
>
> Years ago, in the late 1950s or early 1960s, I took a course in programming
> the IBM 709, a vacuum-tube computer, or maybe it was the successor IBM 7090,
> an early solid-state machine. That machine had a macro capability; you
> could write a routine, give it a name like TIDDLY, and plug it into your
> program in the form of a pseudo-instruction MACRO TIDDLY. Like all other
> macros, properly used, it saved a lot of coding time.
>
> But one person in the class (not I!) wrote a program that included the
> instruction MARCO TIDDLY (or whatever his routine name was). The computer
> rejected the program because it didn't know what MARCO was. The instructor
> waved the offending code sheet in the air and shouted, "SPELLING IS IMPORTANT!
"
>
> The way some of your messages show up on the listserv, I should think you'd
> flounder around for years without producing a program that would run, simply
> because of all your speling -- er, speeling -- er, seplling -- errors -- you
> know what I mean. You know, but computers are still incredibly stupid, and
> they can't pick up stuff like this, while you can -- yes, even you.
>
> How do you manage to do it?
>
> Wally Riley
> wryly at mindspring.com
>
3. Re: Program problems
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>> your speling -- er, speeling -- er, seplling -- errors
> Umm, your "constructive" point would be?
Personallly, I thot it ws prettty funy.
-- David CUny
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4. Re: Program problems
Good point, Mr Riley, but the trouble is I always spot most of my mistakes
about 50 milliseconds *after* I pressed the 'send' button... Jiri
5. Re: Program problems
At 02:14 PM 3/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>How do you manage to do it?
>
I was thinking, someone needs to develop an email package in Euphoria that
will per-parse any included Euphoria code before sending a message. Can
you spell "that" without any "r"s ?
"A man is not a liar because he lies. He lies because he is a liar."
-* Adrian Rogers
Joe Phillips, Sytems Analyst
Texas Wesleyan University 817-531-4444
6. Re: Program problems
- Posted by Michael Raley <mjronline at IT-WORKS.COM>
Mar 11, 1998
-
Last edited Mar 12, 1998
>The instructor
>waved the offending code sheet in the air and shouted, "SPELLING IS
IMPORTANT!"
Spelling isn't as important as brute strength sometimes,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wallace B. Riley <wryly at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list EUPHORIA <EUPHORIA at MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 11:14 AM
Subject: Program problems
